BuyerBeware wrote:
It's not that meds are always bad. It's that they can cause bad things to happen, and the doctors don't always know it, because it's not something that happens a lot or something that you're taught about to know about it unless you've seen it before or you attend a lot of conferences to know.
If the doctor is competent, it shouldn't matter if a bad side effect is one that they're aware of/familiar with. Good/competent doctors question their own conclusions/impressions and acknowledge the limits of their knowledge and expertise.
A huge, huge part of the problem is arrogance ....possibly mixed in with a lack of critical thinking skills (although I don't see how you can become a doctor without good critical thinking skills, so maybe it's just that doctors get out of the habit of using them); Another part of it is stigma against the mentally ill and/or disabled (i.e. the patient is not seen as credible/competent to assess or report on their own mental and physical state because they are diagnosed with something that affects their mental processing in some way.)
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22 Feb 2016, 10:54 pm
