Maybe if Doctors would accept responsibility for what they say, people would start trusting them more. I had one hundred docs tell me to go traveling, max my cards out because i would not be here in a month. I made decisions based on dieing. Well they were wrong. Do you think they would take any rersponsibility. "NO" They compared me to cancer patients and said i should be happy to be alive. No compensation for the thousands of dollars it cost me.

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Gee, they insisted you take responsibility for your own actions?

What jerks.

Maybe it's because most doctors are full of crap. My father was told at one point he had Lou Gehrig's disease. Can you imagine how devastated we were. Then we were told a few months later at a major hospital, he didn't have ALS, he had Parkinsons. They put him on meds for that. Guess what he didn't have parkinsons. I have found the complete opposite to be true. Doctors lie and tell you how the treatment works and how great it all is and then when it fails, which it usually does, they say, "oh gee, guess the treatment didn't work"

Many may find this hard to believe but having a loved one in ICU for almost 2 months really opened my eyes. The Intensivist or Hospitalist, as they are called, actually treated and/or withheld treatment based on their own idea of the patient's chances for survival. Solely in charge of patient care, the physician had a pessimistic view of infections and their prevalance in the ICU setting. The opinion was they could not be avoided. The hospital was using evidence based medicine in practice, which delayed treatment until cultures or tests confirmed. This practice may be of value to prevent increased resistance but for the individual suffering delays in treatment, it can be deadly. This scenario played out as denying procedures, treatments, overmedication and other choices that reinforced the doctor's opinion or prognosis. Guess what? The doctor proved to be correct, the patient died. Watching the process I realizedNo one was in charge or oversaw the treatment. the doctor manipulated treatment. Some of these patients are 'helped' to die when benefits wane through overmedication or combinations of meds. Combining Propafol/Diprivan, anxiety meds and sleeping pills are cocktails for death. Most people would be horrified at what takes place in ICU units. Chances are you will not improve in one but will deteriorate more rapidly.