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ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

My mother does two things whenever I take her to a doctor’s appointment:

Complain to everyone if she has to wait even a few minutes for her appointment to start
Endlessly ask the doctor pointless questions, repeat herself over and over again with the preface “and as I said”, and generally babble so her own appointment goes long past its scheduled length

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davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.

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- ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
  
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  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Boy, isn’t that a great system?
    
    This is all literally all not a thing here. Hospitals aren’t usually private businesses at all and taking bribes is in fact illegal.
    
    Yet older generations still distrust doctors here too
    
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    Miaou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Germany has mostly a public health system and yet doctors are mostly not to be trusted. Public sector can also be pressured into cutting corners
    
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  - davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ah yeah. I’m from the UK and we don’t really experience that. Although the attitude still exists in the older generation
    
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- NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Possibly because in the past there was a notion that doctors would lie to their patients “for their own good”, and that the doctor’s decision about your care was something you had to just accept.
  
  The notion that patients could advocate for their own care arose during the boomers’ lifetime.
  
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- Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s because a lot of doctors are untrustworthy (being people), and as the years roll by many have watched our loved ones suffer and die in horrifying pain
  
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