Why is it so hard for patients to get doctors to “believe” they’re sick?
Corollary: why do so many doctors seem intent on ignoring data, in the form of massive numbers of very ill pts they shoo out the door?
Is the idea to just...never learn about “new” diseases ever again?
Corollary: why do so many doctors seem intent on ignoring data, in the form of massive numbers of very ill pts they shoo out the door?
Is the idea to just...never learn about “new” diseases ever again?
I also hope the balance of research shifts to include much more investment in #LongCovid relative to acute COVID. Part of why there is so much more research on acute COVID (other than the dire urgency) is that many of these studies are done in hospital settings.
Doctors are learning an astonishing amount in short periods of time by OBSERVING their patients and constantly sharing information. When you gaslight a patient or send them out of your office, you’re saying, in essence, “nothing to see here.”
The only way I got my suite of post-viral diagnoses and the surgical interventions that eventually changed my life was through observation: many days in a hospital with a doctor who ran me through a gauntlet of tests. link.medium.com/SFkUpZKNH8
For hospital out-patient populations, I’m concerned the speed of progress and collection will look nothing like it has for in-patients. We will learn more and more how to care for the hundreds of thousands to millions of life-threatening cases...
#LongCovid should not surprise us. Nature is a spectrum, always. Also, #MECFS exists and post-viral illnesses have been thing since...forever.
