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- From: Keith.Jones@p13.f15.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Re: Pain
- Message-ID: <23337@handicap.news>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:06:20 GMT
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- [This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]
-
- AS> One of the difficulties physicians face is that many
- AS> different problems present with the same or very similar
- AS> symptoms, but yet the cause, treatment, and prognosis is
- AS> very different. That's one of the reasons it takes so
- AS> long to train a physician, and why most physicians specialize.
-
- IMHO, too many physicians specialize and if you cannot be pigeonholed
- right into their field of expertise, they say they can't help you and
- send you to another "expert" who, in turn, passes you off to another.
- This is true especially in those difficult to diagnose pains or
- illnesses. If you do not fit the specifics precisely, doctors feel they
- may be going out on a limb and subjecting themselves to litigation if
- they were to prescribe some drug say that could help but may have some
- very adverse side effects. It is called "passing the buck".
- Unfortunately the "buck" is human which is something they don't take
- time to train these physicians during the long time they have them in
- medical school.
-
- Unfortunate also, is that much like our government and all its
- specialists comes the problems of bureaucratic red tape and we end up
- having this huge conglomeration of specialists who are paralyzed by the
- very medical bureaucracy that created them and find they can adequately
- serve nobody.
-
- -Keith-
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