10 Things Your Doctor Wouldn't Tell You- but we will be spilling the beans

10 Things your Doctor Won’t Tell You

But we will plan on spilling the beansDr. Bola & Dr. CarolFamily physicians

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1. MOST Things Get Better on

Their Own


• The simple fact is that doctors don’t “cure” most ailments (we like to think we do).

• What we do usually is monitor, treat symptoms and stand watch for the rare complication that could creep up.


Your doctor has this phobia


2.

There’s nothing doctors

fear more than lawyers


• For better or for (usually) worse the fear

of litigation drives up healthcare costs.

• Many doctors practice defensive

medicine to cover their behinds rather than

what is best for their patient.


3. Nice people finish well

(most of the time).


• You expect professionalism from your

doctor but doctors are humans too.

• If you are not liked, you will likely

receive the barest minimum from your

doctor.


4. Doctors gossip…about you


• We run complex medical cases by each other. Two heads are better than one.

• We let out the steam by venting about the healthcare system and you.


5.Doctors are passive

aggressive



• Most doctors run from confrontation.

• They show their displeasure by being

cold and more terse than usual.

• Their secret hope is that you pick up the

hint and not come back.


6.Medicine is a business


• Healthcare is big business.

• 18% of the gross domestic product (GDP). Nothing else comes close.

• SOMEONE has to pay for all the technology, infrastructure, staffing and fancy treatments- you maybe?


Caution!


7. Doctors can be lethal!


• Average of 210,000 to 440,000 deaths are directly linked to medical errors.

• Those numbers are peanuts considering that there are over 35 million hospital admissions every year.

• But still?


8. That CAT SCAN could cost

you way more than your co-pay


• Average exposure to head CTs in children can raise overall lifetime risk of future cancers by 2% per exposure.

• Easy to see why we doctors don’t routinely get these scans done on ourselves.


Dyslexia maybe?


9.Doctors can’t tell their right

from left sometimes


• Quite a few surgeries are done on the wrong site, wrong person and wrong body part.

• This happens rarely but more often than we care to admit.


Ignorance is (not) bliss


10.Don’t believe the “no news

is good news” thing


• Unless your doctor has safe guards and double check systems in place, important test results could fall through the cracks.

• It’s always a good idea to follow-up on any labs and testing yourself.


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References

• Healthcare expenditure as a percentage of GDP: WorldBank.org

• Death linked to medical errors: journal of Patient Safety

• Lifetime risk on cancer in children exposed to CT scans: Lancet


http://data.worldbank.org/country/united-states

http://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)60815-0/fulltext

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10 Things Your Doctor Wouldn't Tell You- but we will be spilling the beans