Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass

• burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Interesting. Do your general practicioners not have doctorates? I wonder what that D stands for in the MD behind her name…

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ofc they do. But the specifier matters.

    For instance, would you disagree that the “therapist” part of the title seems a tad less important when there’s something like “orgone” preceding it? Changes the nature, the credibility of what comes after it, no?

    I’m not saying medical doctors are into any sort of pseudoscience, but we are joking about how badly trained and seemingly unintelligent some of them are. And pointing out “general practitioner” also shows that the doctor didn’t specialise, which sometimes is because of lack of ability.

    In Finnish a health clinic is “terveyskeskus”, “health central”, but a lot of people have come to call them “arvauskeskus” ~ “guessing central”.

    The people who actually excel at med schools rarely get stuck at that level and most of the doctors there are like late 20’s without experience or specialisation and the “intellectual rigour” they put into their work is… unimpressive, at best.

    It’s more like they’re using a flow chart for every single thing and can’t understand a word you’re saying.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that is why we don’t have enough GOs people shitting on them.

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I respect people who try, and I respect that doctors can still be learning.

        But when they literally mess up nine times out of ten and don’t even know the basic directions they’re supposed to give me for specific lab tests, then they are not skilled enough. Better to have none than to have them fucking it up even further.

        When testing for gluten antibodies and before a gastroscopy for celiacs, you’re supposed to be on a gluten containing diet for at least 6-12 weeks. I wasn’t aware of that, but did realise to ask the doctor if me having completely avoided gluten for more than a year would affect the result. “No it won’t affect the result.”

        Then I go and give it, and then also google the testing procedure. Every single source says that you need at least two weeks of gluten exposure and >95% of them say 6-12 weeks. I bring this politely to the attention of the doctor. She completely dismisses me and then does some office bullshit so she doesn’t have to see me anymore.

        And I’ve honestly started running out of politeness, since it’s been like almost four decades and they’re still having problems with absolutely trivial basic shit. Mostly it’s because of the system that’s conditioned them into acting that way, not their inherent traits.

        So it’s not like they’re education has been entirely wasted, but someone needs to teach them how to think. One should think that critical faculties would be a requirement in being a practicing doctor, but hey-ho, doesn’t seem to apply.

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