Comments on: Telling lies to your doctor, and how it can kill you http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it.html medical blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:53:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-89237 Anonymous Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:01:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it-can-kill-you.html#comment-89237 Most of the doctors are social psychologists simply play to the tune of social condition.they make money by simply prescribing.Hence they won't cure you of any disease/the real docs are few. Most of the doctors are social psychologists simply play to the tune of social condition.they make money by simply prescribing.Hence they won’t cure you of any disease/the real docs are few.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-89187 Anonymous Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it-can-kill-you.html#comment-89187 While it's true that as physicians we've heard it all, *many* doctors don't hesitate to judge their patients. Most of the time it's behind their backs, but sometimes it's to their faces. I've overheard lots of very inappropriate remarks from physicians. Many physicians will immediately dismiss complaints from someone who has psychiatric problems or a history of substance abuse. I've been on both sides, as a patient labeled as a somaticizer (when I was a teenager, and there definitely was a psychological component, but eventually an EMG revealed severe carpal tunnel) and as a physician. There are lots of insensitive docs out there. While lying is never beneficial to a patient, I completely understand why people do it. While it’s true that as physicians we’ve heard it all, *many* doctors don’t hesitate to judge their patients. Most of the time it’s behind their backs, but sometimes it’s to their faces. I’ve overheard lots of very inappropriate remarks from physicians. Many physicians will immediately dismiss complaints from someone who has psychiatric problems or a history of substance abuse. I’ve been on both sides, as a patient labeled as a somaticizer (when I was a teenager, and there definitely was a psychological component, but eventually an EMG revealed severe carpal tunnel) and as a physician. There are lots of insensitive docs out there. While lying is never beneficial to a patient, I completely understand why people do it.

]]> By: nyc doc http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-89180 nyc doc Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it-can-kill-you.html#comment-89180 Couldn't disagree with you more on this one. <br/><br/>Any patient who's had psychiatric care will tell you that his/her medical complaints are dismissed as 'somatizing'. Once most MDs know the psychiatry hx, the patient is no longer a person, but a 'crock', 'chronic complainer', 'overdramatic'. <br/><br/>Yes, people w/schizophrenia have lousy health habits, smoke and get bloated from the meds we give them. BUT - are those the only reasons their median lifespans are 55 yrs, full 20 years of potential life lost? Don't think so. <br/><br/>I've routinely gotten psych patients like this sent to my ER from psych holding w/asthma, DKA, perf'd ulcer. They were triaged and abn'l VS attributed to 'stress'. Triage RN hears psych hx? Off you go to the mental health folks!<br/><br/>Nope, psych pts can't win on this one. Neither will we ER docs or primary care docs, unless the stigma is cleaned up. Couldn’t disagree with you more on this one.

Any patient who’s had psychiatric care will tell you that his/her medical complaints are dismissed as ’somatizing’. Once most MDs know the psychiatry hx, the patient is no longer a person, but a ‘crock’, ‘chronic complainer’, ‘overdramatic’.

Yes, people w/schizophrenia have lousy health habits, smoke and get bloated from the meds we give them. BUT – are those the only reasons their median lifespans are 55 yrs, full 20 years of potential life lost? Don’t think so.

I’ve routinely gotten psych patients like this sent to my ER from psych holding w/asthma, DKA, perf’d ulcer. They were triaged and abn’l VS attributed to ’stress’. Triage RN hears psych hx? Off you go to the mental health folks!

Nope, psych pts can’t win on this one. Neither will we ER docs or primary care docs, unless the stigma is cleaned up.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-89179 Anonymous Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:14:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it-can-kill-you.html#comment-89179 Hate to say it, but doctors do pass judgement on you ... very quickly. Don't believe me ? Go into your doctor, complain about back pain and ask them for pain killers.<br/><br/>You will now experience what it feels like to be accused of being a junkie. I do not personally lie to my doctor, but I could very easily see why someone would. When I run out of my pain killers, it takes me a few weeks to build up the nerve to go ask for a refill. Then spend the next week feeling like a criminal. Hell, even the pharmacist gives me dirty looks.<br/><br/>Its sad, but so true :( Hate to say it, but doctors do pass judgement on you … very quickly. Don’t believe me ? Go into your doctor, complain about back pain and ask them for pain killers.

You will now experience what it feels like to be accused of being a junkie. I do not personally lie to my doctor, but I could very easily see why someone would. When I run out of my pain killers, it takes me a few weeks to build up the nerve to go ask for a refill. Then spend the next week feeling like a criminal. Hell, even the pharmacist gives me dirty looks.

Its sad, but so true :(

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-89177 Anonymous Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:53:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/01/telling-lies-to-your-doctor-and-how-it-can-kill-you.html#comment-89177 If docs "double or triple the numbers patients say," doesn't that lead to misdiagnosis for the 87% who don't lie? If docs “double or triple the numbers patients say,” doesn’t that lead to misdiagnosis for the 87% who don’t lie?

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