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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Huh??? This make no sense to me. If the doctor prescribes a drug and the patient doesn't take it, it is not the doctor's fault. Are you saying that someone who is 100 pounds overweight should not get medical treatment because they just eat too much? Is that the doctor's fault?
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You choose a doctor because you believe they are qualified but perhaps more because you approve of their personality-bedside manner. Obviously, it is a two way street.
You mention 100 lbs overweight. If, that is your issue. If, it is getting worse. It is fairly easy to take weight off. The hard part, where most people fail is keeping it off. In any case, as frustrating as it is. it is also frustrating for a doctor. If, it is bad enough the doctor might well prefer you left.
Where we used to live-pre Villages. I, my sister and my niece all used the same doctor. I had used him for many years. He was sort of a friend and a bit of a gossip. I had serious issues with my sister due to my niece. The doctor knew as we would discuss it. Perhaps, inappropriately he once told me that my sister and my niece were his patients and that they had left.
His comment was he is glad they both left. My sister-I do not regularly talk to her. As a patient, as a human being, she is the type that refuses to listen to a different opinion than her own.
She is, or was several hundred pounds overweight. Her extra weight kept her from exercise so of course it got worse.
She has been going through chemo. I don't think her weight caused her cancer but I do know her weight makes her care, her options etc more difficult.