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Second OpinionsA patient wrote in to the New York Times saying that his doctor told him that if he slept a few extra hours each day his broken foot would heal faster. "There is no evidence, even anecdotal, that more sleep promotes or accelerates bone healing, " said Dr. Melvin Rosenwasser, an orthopedic surgeon at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. So this patient was going to spend a couple of hours in bed everyday for nothing. Patients sometimes turn their lives upside down in order to comply with nonsense provided to them by doctors. Sometimes the advice is more onerous, or even harmful. My doctor persuaded me that my interest in getting second opinions was only my searching for someone who would tell me what I wanted to hear. Eventually he persuaded me to put myself solely in his hands. I stopped getting second opinions. Then he injured me and reinjured me leaving me with a permanent disability caused by his being unobservant and unwilling to pay for a simple test rather than make money by mega dosing me on prescriptions that caused injuries without healing anything. A second opinion could have prevented all of that. In fact, after half of year of his damaging mega dosing, it was a second opinion that finally arrested my doctor's continuing to cause new problems. I finally got a test that showed that the original problem was not being addressed by mega dosing me on the drugs that were creating problems that I now have to live with for the rest of my life. Always get second opinionsWhen another doctor asks what a previous doctor thought, I respond that I want to know "what you think." Why am I going to the trouble and expense of seeing a second or third doctor if they only are going to parrot each other? Do the work and give me a fresh opinion. There is a small pile of examples ready to include on this page, but do we need more than two to make the point? Hit your back button to return to where you were |
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