Doctors!!!
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I am convinced that doctors are the dumbest people on earth.. or maybe its just South African doctors that all strive to be as big an idiot as or Health Minister... (i apologise if you, if a member of your family, your wife, girlfriend, friend, soul-mate or neighbour is a really good doctor,) but i am generalizing okay!!!
My mum's brother has been really sick for the last few months. He has been to 2 doctors in the small farm town where they live, and they both diagnosed his ailment as bronchitis and were treating him with that.. (now, his family is also at fault, since they didnt take him to a specialist but that is besides the point..) so, after being sick for the last couple of months, he get really ill a month ago... so he went to another local Gp, that used a few more of his brain cells and decided to take some tests.. The tests came back, and showed that he had Lung cancer, so, he was sent to have some scans done.. and the scans showed that the cancer was spread from the Brain all thw ay to the lungs.... through the eye etc... he is too weak to even do chemo or radium or any treatment, so they packed him up into his car, and sent himn home telling the family that it is just a matter of time...
on the other side of my family, my dad's sister's husband has also been really sick. Now, he lives in JHb, his family has taken him to the doctors and also to the hospital, and the doctor's said, its becuase he is daibetic , that he is not feeling too well.. blah blah... until he got ill on wednesday.. so they rushed him to Garden City Clinic, and whta do you know.. Test results showed taht he has kidney stones "the size of a golf/tennis ball" and his one kidney was close to collapsing, so they did an operation that lasted for 5 hours on Friday, he has been in the High Care unit since then, and is going under another operation later this morning...
So, i ask again? what is wrong with the doctors of SA??? are they just too lazy to treat a patient properly? They just assume the ordinary when diagnosing, Site "stress " at the best of times, and do nothing.. until its too late.. Maybe its all part of a conspiracy to lessen the population in S.A....
Maybe Manto should stop the research on the African Potato cure and send the doctors for better training ....
7 comments:
congratulations, nice blog :D
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i'm sorry to hear about both your relatives illnesses :-(
but you know i think they are lazy these doctors and i hope their asses get sued-the lawyer in me talking-but maybe that will make them catch a wake up and force them to do their job properly! idiots!
bar americas: thanks..
fatima: i agree, doctors are just too lazy to do anything, and the sad thing is that they get away with it because no-one complains to the Health Professional council etc, and even if someone did complain, nothing gets done to rectify errors, so, unfortunately, sueing them wont work...
sowwy bout your fam members ruby:(
A little late but...
1) Awful to hear about the fam and illnesses... of course duas with them...
2) Doctors are dumb, period.
Ive dated enough to know better.
la ilaha ila ALlah..
it happens alot .. not only in SA, but even in my country..
i dont know how can they misdiagnose such diseases..
Hi Ruby..was just reading this post, and I think you're being just a little bit unfair by generalising that all doctors are stupid.
Ok...here is my take on the whole thing, and being an insider in the industry, I think I have a very good viewpoint.
GP's see on average between 40 and 50 patients a day and spend an average of 7 mins attending to a patient. I'm not a GP, but I have worked in a few GP Practises just to help out, and I can honestly say that the pressure of having a full waiting room of patients waiting to be seen does not help. It caused me to just see a patient and isolate one problem, solve that and then move on to the next patient. When I had finished the session, the receptionist told me that I had only seen two-thirds of the patients the regular doctor would have in the same time?
Is it his fault. Yes and No. Because it's a balancing act of being fair to the patient in your office, and the 20 others waiting in your waiting room!
Anyways i decided that GP practice was not for me, especially this type of production-line practice.
The other thing is that what most GP's see all the time, 99% is coughs, colds back-ache, with a degree of headaches and depression and anxiety disorders thrown in for good measure. So what happens is that the longer you are in GP practice, the worse your tunnel-vision becomes. You don't see everything because your mind has become out of focus and untrained to pick up more serious disease.
So I'm not trying to stand-up for doctors that are lax, but I just need to tell you that everything is not black and white. Had your uncle maybe gone back to the same doctor after a week or so to say that his symptoms had not improved, I have no doubt that alarm bells would have gone off, and he would have investigated further. What unfortunately happens is that patients don't go back to the same doctor,(this is known as doctor-shopping) and the new doctor will also assume the illness to be most likely a benign infection.
Basically, I don't want you to lose faith. There are good doctors out there. And the good majority of them are not lazy.
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