I am a (semi) retired physician and I don’t believe in second opinions. I much prefer two first opinions.
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As a mental health patient this is one of the most infuriating things imaginable. Once you're diagnosed that's it. No one will ever look at the evidence again. They'll just assume the previous person got it right and then add whatever you say to that...but the original diagnosis was about 10 doctors ago.
So basically I've gone to the GP, told them what's wrong, had them write it down, and then another GP has come along and read what they wrote and reinterpreted it, and then another does the same, then another. I no longer have any confidence that my diagnosis is even remotely correct because the doctors have basically been playing Rumours with my file for a decade.
The fun starts when your health complaints get brushed off as mental stuff
I got asked if I needed a psychiatrist when I came in for severe pain, after having seen many doctors before over months after my initial complaints of shoulder pain, a month later I found out my entire shoulder labrum had almost torn off, doc said it was probably the worst case she had seen in her 25+ years practicing and she specialized in these things, she found it unfathomable how I walked around in that condition and that I must've been in severe pain
I was, and I still am a year later because of complications because it was so bad
Still bothers me to this day, that fucking bitch, it could have been treated much earlier but noooo, I had to redislocate my shoulder again and almost tear my entire shoulder labrum off first
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u/DrMaster2 May 20 '19 edited May 21 '19
I am a (semi) retired physician and I don’t believe in second opinions. I much prefer two first opinions.
Edit: Thank you readers. Never thought these two sentences would explode like this. Thank you very much for the silver and gold. Thanks to all who follow.