How often will a Physician listen to someone who believes is both sides of reallity?

Question

When you are feeling ill. What do you do as a human prior to visiting a real doctor?

Answer 1

What constitutes a 'real doctor'?

Your typical MD or DO will listen to your story about both sides of reality for about 12 minutes then your time is up and they walk away and hand you a prescription for something that only has a 50% chance of working or will only work 50%.

If you want someone to be caring and compassionate about your feelings toward both sides of reality go to someone who practices Homeopathy.

Answer 2

An honest and experienced physician will not discount the benefit of religious or spiritual beliefs, because they have been widely documented in statistical studies to have an effect on patient happiness and ability to resist and recover from illness.  How much they will listen is another question.  It's not really their area of expertise -- that's what priests, pastors, counsellors, gurus, shamans, healers, etc. are for.

Answer 3

I close the door of my room and evoke my guiding angel. I am 45 and never went badly ill. To me, illness is a matter of sadness that roots when you don't realize solitude is not a condemn but the best way to keep in contact with God and prepare yourself for shared happiness.

Answer 4

An M.D. who doesn't believe in God is no doctor!

Answer 5

I don't think Physicians listen at all . My 17yr old daughter took ill , and the signs were very negative to me , We spent 8 months trying to get a doctor to listen to me eventually one did. It was found that she had cancer, I had mentioned to doctors gps and hospitals of my concerns  as a few years before i had nursed my own mum till she died with cancer. No one listen to me. Now we are 2yrs down the line and she has just finished all her treatments. My intuition as a mother was ignored by the medical profession, but thankfully she has came through h**l and back. Now at 19 her life is on hold, till she gets the all clear for the next 5 yrs. However all her major decisions came on relevant dates IE my mothers birthday, anniversary of her death, wedding anniversary of my mothers and i feel my mum or a guardian angel is watching over her, i pray i am right, so my girl can live a happy life and make up for the years lost.

Answer 6

The only physician you should trust your life or the lives of your children to is an one who practices evidence-based medicine.  Such medicine deals with reality.  It's not a perfect system but it's standardized as much as such a system can be.  Not all doctors are good doctors.  Any fault with them should be blamed on them personally rather than the evidence-based medicine they practice.

EDIT: I see a lot of magical thinking and general distrust of the medical community in these answers.  As I stated, not all doctors are good doctors and the system isn't capable of curing everything under the sun (i.e. perfect).  However, whatever medicine a good doctor practices is much better than anything provided by a practitioner of any c**p medicine (i.e. homeopathy, holistic healing, alternative medicine) out there.  Such modalities have been shown to be completely ineffective.  Homeopathy is nothing short of drinking very expensive water.

Answer 7

First of all, I try to find a doctor who is more open-minded.

That's very difficult, because such doctors are rare, but they do exist.

I understand the grief and frustration when someone you love is ill and the doctor won't listen.  

If you believe in holistic care, vitamins, natural healing methods of any kind, you will be ignored, even ridiculed, most of the time.  

Try to find a doctor with a less rigid world view.  Once I had good luck with a Seventh Day Adventist doctor who was willing  to allow Castor oil packs and tee tree oil for seriously infected wounds that antibiotics could not heal.