Trusting doctors?

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Do you trust all doctors to: have the most up to date knowledge? Have your best interests in mind? To not push their agenda on you? 
I’ve been surprised a few times by doctors odd recommendations that clearly go against what is common knowledge. For example: I used to work in a field where I spoke with a clients doctor stated that pumping and dumping was necessary to get alcohol out of breast milk. Now even just a little internet research will prove this to be unnecessary, and in fact wrong. Another (less extreme/surprising) example: my doctor suggested I start my (completely healthy, full term) daughter out with some rice cereal at six months. But I had previously researched this and found rice cereal to be mostly just empty calories/filler. So we decided not to use rice cereal. 
So what do you think about blindly trusting doctors just because they are doctors?

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I actually don't trust doctors. Now do I go to them, sure. Do I take my kids to them, sure. Do I use the advice they give me always? No. 
I will visit a dr for something I feel can be out of my control. See what they say gather information, take it home, talk to others in similar situations maybe do some online research and then decide from there. 
I see midwives for pregnancy .. I have three of them but only 'trust ' one. 
Drs are advocates for their text books and very biased school education. So if they have studied and read it . They will recite and preach it.

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I think some doctors are a waste of space. When my daughter was a few weeks old this was about 4 years ago. She was crying uncontrollably for hours nothing I did helped which was unlike her. We took her to her pediatrician who was an Army doctor he couldn't find anything wrong with her and said she had a behavioural issue and to see a specialist. I was pissed. I was a first time mom so I didn't know what to do, ended up taking her to the ER turns out she had an ear infection. Needless to say we switched peds. And they also recommended her oatmeal because she had reflux. She's had stomach problems ever since. They recommend that for my twins now I didn't do it.

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I work with Doctors, I would trust the majority of the doctors I work with with mine and my families lives. But not all. I work with some that are ego tistical or sexist. I have had a really bad experience with one gynae female doctor that has put me, a medical professional off from going to seek further.

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Nope. I had a small infection in my neck last November and was prescribed antibiotics for it. A few days later I started to feel like I had the flu. Terrible stomach issues and cold sweats. I’ve had clostridium difficile before and knew that’s what I had. Went to urgent care and the young doctor told me “the antibiotics you took rarely cause cdiff. I doubt that’s what you have. It’s probably food poisoning since it was just thanksgiving.” I said okay that’s a cool opinion, test me. I have a stool sample and wining three hours they called and said I was positive for cdiff. Went on a ten day antibiotic for it. Cdiff is extremely contagious and can literally kill you if it gets too bad, he was ready to send me home with “food poisoning”. It came back after those ten days, then again after two more rounds of ten day antibiotics. (These stupid doctors just kept giving me 10 days of antibiotics and it kept coming back, obviously it wasn’t working but nobody tried anything different.) I lost 22 pounds in a month and a half. I finally was sent to a gastroenterologist and he prescribed me 7 weeks of a tapered antibiotic. I yelled at him, because “IF ANTIBIOTICS HAVEN’T GOTTEN RID OF IT YET, WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME MORE?!?” My other option was an FMT, fecal matter transplant. Basically they blend up someone’s healthy poop and put it into your butt. Awful sounding, I know, but I was desperate to feel better. I’d do anything. But thankfully it did go away after those 7 weeks, didn’t need the FMT. But, now I can’t really take antibiotics anymore. And I’m only 20 so lolol

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I will never go to one doctor again iv been to him for other things but after this I will never go to him again, he was my doctor with my first pregnancy and wouldn’t give me any information when I asked for it. 
I would ask when will my next appointment be, if it was safe to still work at my job,(I work in a alcohol shop and move pallets and lift beer slabs every shift). All my answers came back with no helpful answer.
Unfortunately we lost our daughter 5days after Christmas I went into early labor at 21+weeks. This doctor was out of the country when this all happened and when the autopsy results came back for our daughter it was the Midwifery’s doctor who delivered her who called me and gave us the results.
My second pregnancy was better but ended the same way but this new doctor was great he gave me a weight reduction for work and I had and appointment and ultrasound every 4 weeks. And when I was airlifted to the Royal Woman’s Hospital I had Mum ring the doctor clinic to cancel my appointment and he rang me during my appointment time to see how I was going and even rang the Hospital to get more information. Even my local Hospital rang the Royal Woman’s that Monday to see how I was going. But unfortunately we had lost our Son at 24+ weeks the Thursday after I got there.
My next pregnancy (this pregnancy currently 5+ weeks 🤗) I will be seeing a specialist doctor every 2 weeks at the Royal Woman’s Hospital so a 4+ hour train trip every 2 weeks. I have a appointment Thursday at my local clinic so a referral can be faxed to the Royal Woman’s and they can book my appointment and let me know. I will be having stitches to keep my cirvix closed and the specialist doctor said they will do that right way.

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You have to remember that doctors are only human but doctors who make a point of staying up to date will make it known. Offering treatment options with full explanations. Pamphlets or posters about new information will be available. Also doctors who only have a family practice but don’t commit to any other care options like emerge, walk in clinics, teaching or additional certifications will not be as informed. It’s just as important for you as the consumer of healthcare to seek the most competent option.

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I’ve only had one experience with a doctor that made me not trust their advice. My regular doctor had a family emergency and had to go out of town so my appointment was continued with a different doctor. I went there because my jaw was popping and clicking and hurting so bad (later found out that it was TMD). I was only 15 at the time and it hurt so bad that I’d only eating mashed potatoes for the previous few days because it hurt so bad to chew. This doctor didnt even look at my jaw, didn’t tell me what it was, and told me to take ibuprofen every four hours for it. That’s what I’d been doing and it didn’t help. 
So I scheduled an appointment with my regular doctor when he got back. Turns out it was TMD that was so bad that I had to go to physical therapy twice a week for the next eight months just to get my jaw to stop hurting until I’m old enough to get surgery on it.

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You can always do your own research on top of what the doctor has told you. My pediatrician has never told me what to feed my son at all. He has left it up to me. He also was very pro breastfeeding. So I think that’s mainly why he never pushed baby food or oatmeal on me. But, I did go out and research myself and I started my son on baby food at 4 1/2 months and now at  11 months he is still breastfed but he mainly eats table food and I haven’t had any issues. You do what you think is best based on the info your doctor gives you and what you have researched that way you have more options.

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