Everyone ends up seeing a doctor for something or other. Some of us have more than our share of doctors and specialists especially if we have a chronic condition or disease.
I go to see four docs now including my general practitioner, dermatologist, gynecologist, and neurologist.
Here are my questions for you....in no particular order.
1. What do you feel are essential qualities that you look for in your doctors?
2. Do you feel that gender makes any difference in how well you jive with a particular doctor or specialist?
3. What would make you stop seeing a doctor/therapist/specialist?
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1. What do you feel are essential qualities that you look for in your doctors?
Has to be a good listener.
2. Do you feel that gender makes any difference in how well you jive with a particular doctor or specialist?
YEs, I do think gender plays a role. Funny, all my current docs are women. Except for my dentist, who is a heckava great listener and practitioner.
3. What would make you stop seeing a doctor/therapist/specialist?
Any unprofessional behavior. Making me wait forever and a day for an appointment or in the waiting room.
Great questions!
1. I like docs with minimal ego. The god-complex is a real turnoff. I want a doc who encourages questions instead of seeming irritated or challenged by them. And I like docs who are open to naturalpathic/holistic care.
2. Only female Ob/Gyn considered. Otherwise, its the doc, not the gender.
3. I have stopped seeing a doc who practices too conservative of medicine (CYA medicine), making me go through (and pay for) unnecessary tests. The same doc got ruffled when I asked basic questions about why he prescribed me antibiotics when I was Pg. So I found a new doc soon after. I've very happy with my family physician for past 6-7 yrs. He's laid back, very open to questions, lets the fact that he's a real person show through.
1. I want to be comfortable to a good doctor who is willing to listen and care so I can share everything about me.
2. Gender is not an issue with me but rather how a doctor can relate to me. I have a woman family doctor while I have a male MS doctor.
3. Stop is when I no longer have a good relationship with a doctor.
for the first question: empathy and compassion and understanding.
2nd. Gender makes no difference to me. As a male I am comfortable with a female doctor. I wish I could go to my wife's gyno, she's a doll.
3rd. Lack of compassion, rudeness, and, as Dr. Deb said,unprofessionality.
1. I prefer a doc that shows compassion and concerns for my condition, and willing to teach me how I can manage it so that I can be more functional and independent.
2. I am seeing a doc for asthma and a psy for bipolar. Both are female. I prefer female as I feel more comfortable sharing with them. I have tried a male psy, somehow can't click.
3. Lack of compassion and impatience puts me off. I also don't like docs that are only interested to dispense medicine and don't teach me how to manage my condition even when they are able to do so. They made me too dependent upon them. Not good for me ultimately. My current psy does not only monitor my medication, she also teaches me how to manage my condition. She empowers me so that I don't feel hopeless.
1. I like doctors to respect me enough to explain fully what I need to know. I want them to be good listeners and to consider seriously my point of view or my questions.
2. It makes no difference to me.
3. When they have run into a dead end in how to treat me and I need someone with a fresh approach. When they're not as up-to-date as they should be on treatment methods.
1. listening, caring, wanting to help me as a person not just a condition being presented.
2. No I happy dealing with either
3. If I just felt I was being fobbed off - there is one doctor at our practice I try to avoid as that is the feeling I get from him.
you forgot dentist/Dr. you wont forget it when you have had serious tooth pain.
hwp nurses
I have a hard time with strangers I have to be vulnerable with. So i guess I mainly look for signs of respect and competency. And has a holistic approach, however that manifests.
Good health to you.
1 - Competency and Compassion.
2 - No, although I might feel differently if I had more sexual-specific things being examined or discussed, as a woman does with gynecology. I had a female doctor assisting on my vasectomy and had no real problem with it, though.
3 - If I was in pain and he/she was unwilling to take the pain away. I refuse to suffer when relief is available. If the pain just plain can't be taken away immediately, that's another story. However, If I'm suffering, and it's within the power of the physician to ease my suffering, but he.she won't do so, for whatever reason, then I wouldn't hesitate to walk away.
Just a quick visit...I can't comment re docs at present, as last week has left me very low. Thanks for all your good wishes on my blog, MM.
1. They must listen, understand that they work for me, and know that MD does not stand for Major Deity.
2. Not at all.
3. Their being disrespectful, causing me harm, or not listening to what I have to say.
all bases are covered by those who preceded me... nothing to add
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