Ok, maybe we kind of bashed Physicians today, but it was truthful. I know that they have a hard job and that people falsely sue them, make accusations and so on. I know they get ripped off.
We have to remember that not all doctors are bad. It's important to research thoroughly to find a good one though. But in my opinion, based on my experiences, it seems like few doctors truly care about their jobs anymore. Maybe it's because of all the crap they go through, I don't know.

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and I appreciate all that you have to say. I do agree with Reality though. And although I have had generally good experiences with physicians in the past, this experience with my son was far from acceptable. Also, my cousin's husband is a neurosurgeon and the things that he hears other doctors say re: patients, money etc. make me cringe. My best friend from college is a nurse at a major hospital here and yet she chose to give birth in her own home with a midwife, only hinting to me that she has seen too much that has turned her off to the medical profession while working in it. It's a sad state of affairs.

I also feel that often times medical doctors, especially older ones, tend to not take younger patients seriously. The few times I have asked my doc re: health concerns she always gives me a quizzical look and I end up feeling like a hypochondriac. My husband has a goatee and tattoos....when he went in to see a gastroenterologist, and an ear nose & throat spec. to determine mysterious bleeding from his throat they gave him the run around....the gastro. even so much as told him he was late to lunch and would have to resched the appointment while my husband was there! WTF? Pardon my French, but please! Young, goatee & tatoo, does not a punk make, yet these docs made my husband feel as such. I am sure there are many quality doctors out there, it's just a shame that I am not the only one having a hard time finding them!

Going along with the "teaching physicians" thing:
You know how I worte about that doctor and the BM's, on model moms blog, well when I talked to the friend of the family doc he told me that a big problem is that science is ever changing. He explained that doctors have to continually take classes to learn new things and refresh old things. He also stated that the doctor was probably advising me using outdated information. So does this make the guy a "bad doctor"...um...I don't know. I would like to say he isn't but the advice could have killed my baby and left me deaf in one ear. In my opinion, that constitutes as poor doctoring skills. BUT, is it really possible for a doctor to keep up with all this information? I know they work demanding schedules sometimes. I don;t even see when they would be attending all these classes.

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I enjoyed reading your post very much. It was well written,informative.

When I went to the emergency room the doctor was breezy and such. But it's understandable considering that he probably saw a lot of patients, had dealt with unbearable patients and such.

I think of it as being a waitress in a place that gets lots of traffic.You have the nice customers, the ones that you get to know, the idiot customers, the unbearabler ones. You keep working that long enough, you keep getting crappy customers who expect you to do everything for them and you're bound to be bitter and jaded.Or maybe not.

Don't get me wrong. I have also written about bad doctors. The doctor who delivered my first baby made a mistake that put my health in jeopardy. But it was a mistake. And it was one of two major ones that she has made in a long career. Furthermore, she was NOT the only one responsible, and if you want to get right down to it, I feel the hospital is much more to blame than the doctor. So when I became pregnant with my second one, I went back to her. I was a little more firm and insistant about my wishes, and she was open and attentive to what I needed. As a result, my second birth was amazing.

The doctor who treated my son was completely worthless, and it had nothing to do with being in an HMO or 250K in debt. He just didn't know what he was doing. Neither did his associates. The clinic I have now is the complete opposite. When my daughter placed mattress foam in her nose, one doctor did everything she could to get it out, and spent 2 hours going throughout the clinic and hospital. At points she would stop and think about what we could try that might work. She used her training to try and discover a solution. It didn't work, but the trying counted for a LOT. I know I've raved about her here before. Another doctor there is very fast. His appointments rarely last very long, but they are in depth, and his treatments always work. He has an incredible amount of knowledge, and he always explains things completely.

So please don't think that I am bashing all doctors. As in any profession, there are people who were born to do the job, and there are people who should switch careers.

there are people who were born to do the job, and there are people who should switch careers.

True. very true. But when the demand for physicians exceeds the supply, as it currently does especially in non-"plush urban" areas, you will get the ones that should move on. And the "managed care" systems will ensure that your opportunity to choose your way around them will be limited. After all, the less competent are likely to be cheaper, because people won't pay a premium to retain them.

Obviously, the dynamic is more complex than what I wrote in the blog. Hell, that topic could be a book. Several books. Probably already is. All I can really hope for in such a forum is to encourage people to see with slightly greater clarity why certain things are as they are.