>1. You pay to see a doctor. You weren't forced to. You chose to.
Yes, that they couldn't help me is not the problem. The problem is that they behaved unprofessionally and mocked me.
>2. You tell them you read about your condition on the internet. Even though the majority of the health information on the internet is utter garbage.
>3. You then get offended when they tell you to not trust what is on the internet. Although again they are 100% spot on here.
- I am 100% OK with a doctor disagreeing with me. A few of the doctors I've met I respect immensely - even though I disagree with them - simply because they were respectful in their disagreement of what I had to say and had an adult answer for me that didn't involve mockery.
- They did not tell me not to trust what is on the Internet. They mocked me and gave up trying to treat me. They became aggressive. And they still wanted to get paid even after deciding I wasn't worthy enough for them to try!
I am an expert in my field, yet I don't dare imagine what would happen if I mocked a client who asked a "stupid" question! And even if there were no consequence, I'd never do it. Why is this somehow OK in medicine?
>4. You are confused why they are dismissive of you. When you chose to see them, paid money for their expert advice and then wanted to dismiss it in favour of your expert advice. Except that your expert advice = 5 mins of Google and theirs = 20 years of schooling.
I did not dismiss their advice. I took it, for decades. You underestimate the hubris of some of these people - they mocked me even if I took their advice, simply for reporting what happened to me.
>I really do feel really sorry for GPs to have to go through this 100x a day.
Oh those poor snowflakes, having to speak to non-expert clients without mocking them!
There exists no other industry where the expert can be so ineffective, yet at the same time aggressively mock the client outright, even deciding not to do the work because the client is not to his/her liking, while still getting paid.
Indeed; it boggles my mind that people are so forgiving of doctors. Why do we not demand the same level of respectful conduct from them as we do from others?
Is there a "Code of Conduct" in the medical community?
Yes, that they couldn't help me is not the problem. The problem is that they behaved unprofessionally and mocked me.
>2. You tell them you read about your condition on the internet. Even though the majority of the health information on the internet is utter garbage.
>3. You then get offended when they tell you to not trust what is on the internet. Although again they are 100% spot on here.
- I am 100% OK with a doctor disagreeing with me. A few of the doctors I've met I respect immensely - even though I disagree with them - simply because they were respectful in their disagreement of what I had to say and had an adult answer for me that didn't involve mockery.
- They did not tell me not to trust what is on the Internet. They mocked me and gave up trying to treat me. They became aggressive. And they still wanted to get paid even after deciding I wasn't worthy enough for them to try!
I am an expert in my field, yet I don't dare imagine what would happen if I mocked a client who asked a "stupid" question! And even if there were no consequence, I'd never do it. Why is this somehow OK in medicine?
>4. You are confused why they are dismissive of you. When you chose to see them, paid money for their expert advice and then wanted to dismiss it in favour of your expert advice. Except that your expert advice = 5 mins of Google and theirs = 20 years of schooling.
I did not dismiss their advice. I took it, for decades. You underestimate the hubris of some of these people - they mocked me even if I took their advice, simply for reporting what happened to me.
>I really do feel really sorry for GPs to have to go through this 100x a day.
Oh those poor snowflakes, having to speak to non-expert clients without mocking them!
There exists no other industry where the expert can be so ineffective, yet at the same time aggressively mock the client outright, even deciding not to do the work because the client is not to his/her liking, while still getting paid.