Three years ago I did a gallbladder cleanse and was surprised to expell a cluster of parasites after the gallstones. I took the parasites, which were the size of small, skinless grapes with "spiderlike" legs, very delicate, and floating in the water, over to my HMO. For fun, I brought along the gallstones, one of them over an inch across. I later found out that the doctor wrote in my medical records that I imagined I had my Gallstones and that I had brought in spiders in tap water. She said we had discussed my psychiatric history and a psychiatric evaluation was recommended. Nothing of the sort was said to me, and aside from the doctor obviously being hostile to naturopathic medicine, I had no idea there was a problem. A year later, when I went in for a sore throat and intestinal upset, I was told they didn't exist. It took me 1 1/2 years to see the comments which had been written. I filed a complaint with the Health Department against both the doctor and the hospital. Be aware that some doctors will brand you in your medical records for opposing their orthodoxy. Even though I had a picture of the gallstones and extensive documentation, I am told all I can do is attach a note to my files. I have found I cannot even discuss this problem without my reputation being put in question. I advise you to get a copy of your medical records including doctors comments, and watch what you say. I can be taken out of context and made to make you look like you look bad. (It's time to take off the rose colored glasses and realize how threatened Orthodox Medicine is of the natural health movement.)
If anyone has had similar treatment, I would appreciate knowing more and any suggestions for exposing the problem.
In a doctor's own words... an article direct from the American Medican Association.
The Difficult Patient-Physician Relationship
by Audiey Kao, MD, PhD
Attendant: The doctor will be with you in a moment.
Elaine: [looking at her chart] Difficult?
Doctor: Elaine, you shouldn't be reading that. So tell me about this rash of yours.
Elaine: Well it's, it's. . . . You know I noticed that somebody wrote in my chart that I was difficult in January of ‘92 and I have to tell you that I remember that appointment exactly. You see this nurse asked me to put a gown on but there was a mole on my shoulder and I specifically wore a tank top so I wouldn't have to put a gown on. You know they’re made of paper.
Doctor: Well that was a long time ago. How about if I just erase it. Now about that rash. . .
Elaine: But it was in pen. You fake erased.
Doctor: All right Ms Benes. This doesn't look too serious. You'll be fine.
Elaine: What are you writing? Doctor. . . .
In this classic Seinfeld episode, Elaine Benes learns that she was once labeled a “difficult” patient because she wouldn’t cooperate with a nurse and change into a paper examination gown. Subsequently, Ms Benes encounters problems getting necessary treatment for her rash and believes it is because physicians consider her to be a whiner and malingerer. Ms Benes resorts to stealing her medical chart in an effort to erase this label, which only adds to further chart entries and a spreading reputation of being difficult that sticks to her like the rash that plagues her.
What do we mean when we say that a patient is difficult? To some, a difficult patient is one who makes irrational choices that would be harmful to his or her own health. Another physician may think of a patient that he or she can’t cure or satisfy as difficult. In some circumstances, it may be boil down to a clash of personalities between a patient and physician. At other times, the difficulties arise as a result of something more fundamental such as patients’ beliefs and values that run counter to the physician’s own. Generally, patients are considered to be difficult when their decision making, behavior, personality or beliefs impede the provision of good medical care.
I doubt that there is a practicing physician among us who has not dreaded seeing the name of a particular patient on his or her appointment list. This dread is shaped in part by biases that range from patient features as seemingly basic as body hygiene to those as substantial as religious convictions. In between is an entire range of personal characteristics—demanding, deceptive, unpleasant, bigoted—that may test the patient-physician relationship.
Like agents in any other social relationship, patients and physicians will sometimes have difficulty establishing rapport—a physician simply dislikes a patient (or vice versa). Demanding and complaining patients challenge physicians' ability to respond compassionately and to ignore the behaviors that they find offensive. In such situations, it is critical for the physician to make certain that a patient’s annoying behaviors which might chalked-up to “personality” are not actually a reflection of the patient’s unmet needs. If the behavior is related to need, the physician has a professional obligation to deal with that need without discriminating against the patient. Hateful, bigoted, and deceptive patients, on the other hand, severely test a physician’s objectivity and sense of justice. In these situations, there are no easy remedies, particularly in a medical emergency or when patients’ access to other sources of care is limited or non-existent.
Restricting the description of a difficult relationship to patients’ beliefs and behavior that prevent good care from being dispensed fails to capture the relational complexity of interactions among patient, physician, and context just discussed. As physicians, we recognize that difficult clinical encounters come with the territory and that some challenging situations are never going to be adequately addressed. At the same time, I firmly believe that the desire to help people, even those we may disagree with or dislike, continues to motivate individuals who choose to pursue medicine as a career.
In this spirit of realistic idealism, this theme issue of the Virtual Mentor explores the ramifications and remedies of the difficult patient-physician relationship. The learning objectives for the issue are:
Understand how physicians' frustrated attempts to make patients well can lead to difficult patient-physician relationships.
Identify problems behind "difficult" behaviors that the physician should address directly with the patient.
Learn that all patient demands do not create obligations to provide what is demanded.
Learn how to broaden attention to the patient's true complaint or need.
As always, we encourage you to share comments on this issue with other VM readers.
HELP!!! It is That Time of the month!!! So I am Crampy and Very bloated. And Now it seems I have this Swelling of the (lymph???) glands under the chin/throat area, plus Pain in the muscle both sides of jaw, and headache going up and into forehead. Although today forehead headache less painful. Also Pain at roof of mouth--as if I scalded that area say with coffee and it is attempting now to heal???
Don't want to DO antibiotics but WHAT should I do??? I thought Sleeping would help, but could not sleep well do to the pain...
OH--I just did a major Attunement. By that I am meaning it is higher than my Master Level Reiki Attunement which had me sick as a dog for a good=bad week following!!!
SO I am thinking this is all a result of the Attunement the Expelling of toxins and all...
Phone a Dentist. Ask the Dentist if they know about TMJ. If they do see the dentist. It is a therapy that Dentists provide that corrects the pain that occurs at the jaw. Often when this does occur there are associated headaches, etc. In fact often other problems can occur too!! Like back aches etc Dentists have found that sometimes it comes from the jaw where it meets the skull. From my understanding nerves or blood vessels are caught in the socket or something like that and the TMJ therapy method relieves or removes the problem.
Cannot remember the full terminology for TMJ rather a mouthful.
Oh Adrick! Sorry to hear you're feeling so bad! Are you feeling better today?? (I just got in)
How many liver flushes have you done? After a few, I found I didn't have any bloating or anything with my periods....so that's something to look forward to eventually!
As for the other stuff...I think you're right...your attunement probably stirred stuff up and you're releasing a lot of toxins. How does your 5th chakra feel, then? Was there a breathrough with your Expression?? Hmmmm....
I wouldn't take the antibiotics, if I were you. How bout oil of oregano? Also hot and cold water therapy? Hot shower/cold shower (or baths). Hot lemon drinks. Eating 3 organic grapefruits in a row. (I find this always helps with my throat area)
Eat well...juice fruit/veg juices! Drink lots of warm water - REST! Trust that your body is releasing as it needs to and you will return to even better health in no time at all....
YEAH EXPRESSION WAY ACCELERATED!!! Communication on many levels--got doreen Virtues Angel oracle cards and had MAJOR Success!!! Got TWO decks--one Healing with Angels. The other Messages from Angles. Began the Latter Deck--Totally Amazing and Accurate Results!!! Next night did the Healing with Angels--NOTICED Archangel Michael was in this deck AND in the Messages deck--though a different picture--SO I thought Let me go to the Messages Deck and SORT through all the cards to find Michael!!! AS SOON as I took the cards out of the box: I SWEAR Michael's card Jumped out FIRST!!!
Communication Enhanced all many levels!!!
OH HEY lymph nodes/glands actually Better--I started Drinking Garlic/onions/chicken SOUP/juice!!!
MY BLOATING seems Worse of late--this time I put on 7 pounds!!! Although THIS even Increased the Water Retention with all the Sodium in the Chicken Boullion pastey stuff I Added to the above!!!
So ten pounds of water Retention???UUUUUGGGGGHHH!!! REALLY!!! PLUS doing P and Bs...
GOT some Acidophillus Plus (actually Potent well)...
we are patrons of doctors, but they are patronizing. i suppose this is how they react when confronted with difficulty. i wonder if patient turnover isn't a factor also. to deal with anything outside the daily 'system' takes time that can be used for another patient. make sure you don't have more than one problem per visit, or it will slow the doctor down.
but enough sarcasm/truth. the medical system in the u.s. makes businessmen out of doctors. this is like blood for money. this, i believe, creates a bias for treatment based on profit. profit must increase each year, despite morality. the bottom line is not health with the medical field. i hope with naturopathy, health is primary.
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