The series "House MD" once shocked me that, it turns out, the doctor can treat the patient extremely active even before understand what he was ill. Prescribed poisonous drugs, painful procedures to appoint, irradiated and cut - and then turn around 180 degrees and prescribe something quite the opposite, but no less bloodthirsty. So twenty five times.
Having endured the brackets dramatic excesses, we must admit that there is a certain amount of truth. We live in the age of, pardon the cliche, high technologies: robotic surgeons and cyber scalpels make operation almost without human intervention, the body printed on 3D-printer, designed prosthesis, capable of responding to the impulses of the brain and touch surface on the way vaccine HIV ... And in a district clinic can still prescribe antibiotics - from the common cold, to name a bite bug allergy, and allergies - ringworm, for years to treat the child from dysbiosis, or vegetative-vascular dystonia (to the west of these diseases do not know), found cancer there where it is not. All this - the money, nerves, tears, and well, if only it!
But after all the difficult diagnosis. According to statistics, Russia in hospitals because of medical errors and negligence die each year 50 thousand people (that's just the official figures). In fairness worldwide such cases account for up to 40 million. At the same time the doctors themselves admit that the level of medical education is falling, and the cost of services is growing.
Americans are known to love sue, and around each of their doctor's worth hundreds of lawyers and waiting when he stumbles. Therefore they try to not step back away from the accepted and institutionalized regulations treatment of a disease, and every step the patient chew, trying to obtain informed consent. We have such a rarity. Our doctors almost never explained his actions - but the average patient does not ask too much. Perhaps the fact that we believe medicine something akin to shamanism, replacing campaign to appeal to the medical room sorceress who poshepchet - and the disease speak. It is not clear how it works, and there is no need to understand.
On a single treatment regimen and can not speak. Do you want to arrange a brain explosion? Go with your sore to three different doctors. You get three different destinations. I once had to be present at the debate of my mother-in-a pediatrician with 40 years of experience and young district, who could not agree on what to do with the usual zheltushka my newborn daughter. Their advice was fine, but mutually exclusive, they broke up, confident in mutual ignorance and narrow-mindedness.
So much so that one doctor released the popular guide to accessible to all "Dummies" (I mean patients) description of medicines for which they would be able to cross-check every time, whether they are treated. I do not throw away I very purpose of the same district that any sneeze prescribes baby kiss "sheet" - and in the nose and throat, and ass, and each time the list is the same with slight variations, as a joke, "Doctor, broke it pill in half: "There you are a citizen of the head, that - from hemorrhoids, do not mix up"?
The popularity of "Dr. Google" speaks for itself: every day, millions of people give a diagnosis and prescribe treatment for yourself by driving the symptoms into a search engine. The experience of the hero of the novel "Three Men in a Boat", which is found at all diseases, except puerperal fever, they do not stop.
So should we believe doctors and follow all the requirements? Or to doubt every word to suspect an error or malice in every assignment and turn only as a last-resort? My answer is - yes, have to trust. But not all, and not immediately. The most important thing - that you put yourself these questions. The worst - mindlessly give health, and their children in someone else's area of responsibility. Act consciously: ask, ask again, specify, consult, do not panic. Your right - to know and understand.
And yet - get your doctor the benefit of now no one is attached to the clinic against her will, it is possible to choose among the "paid", and even among "free". Find your doctor is difficult, it is more difficult than to be married to a great love and a little calculation, that's why there was once a family doctor, a family doctor that generations to enjoy the whole family, from infants to the elderly.
And if there is a - trust and obey. Eventually, even Dr. House was wrong only tactically, but strategically never failed. Almost.
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