Has it Been your Experience that Many (Not All) Medical people, Treat Patients as Idiots?

Question

Thanks Nobody can stop me in the verse!, Good that you had the Good Fortune of Not Having Many people Talking Down to You, Maybe you had people Explain Things to you By Common Experience, e. g. One Could Explain Something Similar to a Enzymatic Pathway, In a Very Complicated Way, it Would Simpler to Say this Thing Goes In and Another Thing Comes Out.

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

I steer clear of such people.  Medicine is not equivalent to shamanism.  Some people may hold the doctor in the esteem and faith of a shaman, but thats their problem.  What differentiates the doctor is her ability to integrate the symptoms into a coherent diagnosis following complex causes, effects and a substantial body of knowledge from several disciplines.  PAs will take over some workload from docs in the future, but with new advances, docs aren't on the way out by any means.

Answer 3

No.  In my experience, most doctors treat the Idiots as People.  Which is probably right - that's why most of 'em are the way they are, I suppose.   So maybe it works both ways?

Answer 4

Not really, they've been okay with me. Even when I was institutionalized, I still felt respected.

Answer 5

Not really. Before becoming familar with their patient, me, they sometimes will seem to be a little aloof, but once they have spoken to me for a while we converse on a repectful level.

Any medical person that takes a "better than thou" stance gets a real awakening real quickly. That includes huffy nurses and stuck up doctors.

Answer 6

It's all I've experienced, but it's not limited to medical - I find the more paper diplomas a person has the worse their attitude is, no matter how many of those same papers I might have....

Answer 7

Yes- my general physician treats me like a number...

My G.I. doctor is downright arrogant.

Answer 8

This is cultural.  Doctors today are yesteryears' shamans.  People have long wanted to believe in shamans which will cure them of any ills, including non-medical ones, and shamans have long complied.  An aura of mystery and special knowledge is essential for this kind of relationship to work.  These kinds of things still persist even today.  Doctors may privately actually know very little about what is really going on, but they are loathe to share their ignorance with their patients out of fear of crashing the shaman mystique.  So, they treat their patients like ignorants instead, hoping the game will continue to work.  

Is it any wonder why many doctors today absolutely HATE the internet and how almost anybody can find sound medical information through it?

Addendum:  In my personal experience, I've had some excellent doctors, some not-so-excellent doctors, and some that hate their jobs, their patients, and are in the wrong profession.