HUMAN BEINGS ARE SO SILLY SOMETIMES
Doctors dole out antibiotics, refer patients on to consultants and for further tests because the public want them to apparently.
We are so ridiculous, that when we attend the surgery we want to come away with a bag of pills, to have something to show for our visit and some report of diagnosis and required treatment to brag about to our friends.
It seems rare to find a human being who attends the surgery with a concern and skips down the road afterwards when nothing has been prescribed and no referral has been made.
Rarer still, that human being, who when offered the bag of pills or tests, declines because in their estimation it is not necessary or the aggro involved will be counter productive.
As a cleric, I am often incensed at hearing that a patient presenting with life's normal stresses has been given anti-depressants or a patient with cancer, has had their last taste of life destroyed by pointless chemotherapy treatments or a patient with a trivial ageing complaint has been whisked into surgery.
Doctors should not pander to our infantile dependency syndromes and we should not leave our brains at the door when visiting the doctor.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/article4438703.ece
We are so ridiculous, that when we attend the surgery we want to come away with a bag of pills, to have something to show for our visit and some report of diagnosis and required treatment to brag about to our friends.
It seems rare to find a human being who attends the surgery with a concern and skips down the road afterwards when nothing has been prescribed and no referral has been made.
Rarer still, that human being, who when offered the bag of pills or tests, declines because in their estimation it is not necessary or the aggro involved will be counter productive.
As a cleric, I am often incensed at hearing that a patient presenting with life's normal stresses has been given anti-depressants or a patient with cancer, has had their last taste of life destroyed by pointless chemotherapy treatments or a patient with a trivial ageing complaint has been whisked into surgery.
Doctors should not pander to our infantile dependency syndromes and we should not leave our brains at the door when visiting the doctor.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/article4438703.ece
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 9:48 AM
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