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Trust and feelingsFrom: Victoria (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri Oct 4 14:53:19 2002
Hi all, Some of you may know that I got into some lists that dealt with spreading around sound based scientific evidence. One of the latest rounds on those lists had to do with several issues, but mostly regarding decision making/trust and the use of scientific articles by the lay public. Several people pointed out that as doctors have been higher education trained in biology, chemistry, etc., they are in the best position to judge what is best among those articles than the regular public to make final treatment decisions. Also, that since doctors bear brunt of legal and financial ramifications, they should be the final decision makers on such subjects. That information brought forward is something that a doctor may already know about, and not important. If a doctor would not allow you to choose between options in similar medications, how would you feel with and deal with this situation? For example, you wanted to take Ortho Cyclen and the doctor wanted you to take Ortho Tri Cyclen? If a doctor recommended a birth control pill, and you wanted to take another, and he/she refused for calling it a decision he/she makes, how would you feel and act on this? How do any of you feel about this, and anyone care to share any experiences? If its possible, please try to separate your head from your heart on this one, or is that something impossible? For those of you that have researched issues and have brought that information to doctors, do you find them receptive? If so or if not, how did that make you feel about them? In addition, do you think that one or even just two doctors can influence how you feel on the medical professional and science as a whole because of their actions? If you read scientific information, and knew that your doctor just paid you 'lip service' to your research how would you feel about that? Do you feel empowered by reading material on your condition? If your doctor thought that you didn't know anything and that you were fooled into thinking you could understand this, what would be your response? How important is it to you to have faith in your physician? For the physician to trust you? In all this discussion, several of my points were: - a physician's attitude towards self education on health problems can make a big difference - that lay people can be taught enough to read and pick out points on medical papers: either enough to help them make a decision, or to bring up questions to have their doctor answer - that lay people should be able to choose treatment options, etc. I think that is it for now. Please feel free to private email me or post. Your posts on this matter will be permanently destroyed after reading.
-- Victoria
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