If something doesn’t seem right, it’s not your right to stand up for yourself, it’s your responsibility. Your health is something that you need to take control of and long-gone are the days that “Doctor knows best.”
Doctors are human, they make mistakes. Nurses and other healthcare professionals do too. The problem is, in many professions mistakes don’t affect lives quite as directly as they do if someone in health care does.
Someone I know through the Internet brought this home the other day and the message is frightening. Although to err is human, when a doctor refuses to even consider that …read more