Thread by @marygerdt

@washingtonpost only got part of this right.
Healthcare has become Much more complicated. More moving parts. More obscure diseases, meds, treatments, individual preferences of Treatment Choices.
Patients move around a lot & Change Primary Care Docs a lot.
Lack of continuity.

https://twitter.com/wagner_nephro/status/1461290839590670347

Patients Don’t Tell Everything & Often Lie, Minimize or Maximize Symptoms, Often don’t know the right words, express pain as anger. Read something on the Internet or the neighbor said, try this.
They don’t hear everything.
Doc: You have Cancer
Patient hears Blah, Blah, Blah 😑

Personally on a Journey being Retired Disabled Nurse of 35 years with #MultipleSclerosis I feel I have #Gadolinium Deposits in my body, left behind after 11 MRI’s in 9 years. @Wagner_Nephro listens and believes it is Possible. Listening is Highly underrated as a Physician Skill.

Every Doctor I have, Each Highly Educated Academic Medical Center Employees & Educators, Every Doctor has gone skeptical on Me when I mention Gadolinium. I finally listed on allergy list so I won’t get it again. We Patients try to raise awareness of Gad Retention. Try, Try, Try.

It doesn’t help when newspapers throw in their oversimplification explanation. It’s all much more complicated. I don’t blame Doctors. In my case, I blame @US_FDA for allowing #Gadolinium to be used &
Rare Earth Vendors selling Gad. USA for ignoring China using Slaves to mine.

Lastly, Environmental Activists ignoring #Gadolinium polluted waters downstream from Hospital MRI Bathrooms.
It’s Complicated. Hospital Systems Profit, Pharmaceutical Companies Profit, Doctors get Sharper Images, problems light up ⭐️ Did Seeking Diagnosis cause Disease? Fin.

@threadreaderapp #unroll please 😎