11/25/2023
MEDICAL RANT:
If I hear doctors or health professionals complain about patients who come in saying they "googled it", guess what? GOOD. We all NEED to look things up for ourselves, apparently!
I was just prescribed an antibiotic (and a wrong cough medicine) for something that I just read from several reliable sources is 90% likely to be viral (antibiotics are for bacteria, not viruses). I have been misguided a number of times in recent years by very young doctors or PAs, once to the point of tears thinking I was going to die of a silent heart attack at any moment and every day might be my last😡😡😡, and once I waited a long time for a specialist that I *knew* was the wrong field and I SAID it, but I obeyed anyway, only to hear within minutes of the appointment "I'm not sure why they sent you to me; you need a ___". Time wasted (and the money that paid her for nothing, and the day of pay I lost to go there) when I could've seen the right person a month & a half sooner.
Are they teaching that poorly, or are they still being paid commissions on prescriptions (yes, some are), or did these students get their credentials without knowing the most basic health things that we can all look up within seconds?
Are there new medical schools out now where they have you draw Tippy the Turtle and then send you a big fat binder to study at home?😂🙄 I did that once.
oooh! That's a good line! "Did you have to draw Tippy the Turtle to get those letters after your name?"🤣🤣🤣 Ok, the young ones won't get it, and I would never actually say that. I'm too polite. But you can all steal it if you want. My dad would say it. He's bad, lol.
I still need to find a P*P I like, or at least don't feel smarter than about health.
But for real...
"First, do no harm"... well, antibiotics harm. Always. It's their job to kill bacteria and they kill a lot of our "good" bacteria along with the bad. The reason we take them is if the bad bacteria is winning and we're not recovering very well. A decision needs to be made as to which is worse: killing the bad bacteria along with some good ones, or letting the bad ones win? And if our illness isn't EVEN FROM bacteria, then taking an antibiotic is *really* throwing a wrench in the machine of our immune system. You just killed a bunch of helpful bacteria for NO reason. Good job, Einstein.
I feel like this recent PA prescribed things for me by throwing a dart at a chart while blindfolded.
The overuse of antibiotics creates antibiotic-resistant germs. Protect yourself and others by using antibiotics wisely.
