Doctors
Ξ April 12th, 2006 | → 0 Comments | ∇ That's Life |
I guess I’m a typical guy in that I don’t really like doctors. It’s not that I feel that I’m invicible or that “it can’t happen to me”. I just don’t really trust them. My experience is that I see arbitrary applications of drugs and healing methods without due process. Teh reality of course is that there IS due process, only the doctor isn’t feeling compelled to share that process with me. I’m a guy that is full of questions. I tend to set out to learn things that most people don’t bother with. This is something I noticed long ago when I was in high school raising questions that teachers found irritating because they weren’t a part of the curriculum. What can you do.
If I was interested in the working on people, I’d have been able to be a doctor. The reason I’m not is not because the subject matter didn’t interest me. I just didn’t want to do all the work to end up dealing with people. The other thing is that I’m pretty lazy in school. I do what I need to though I know I could achieve really high marks if I applied my mind. I know I could do, I just also knew that I could NOT do it and still get by. So perhaps in that regard I couldn’t do it.
My point is though that I find doctors irritating because most of them simply don’t divulge enough information considering what they are working on. I want to know everything. In essence, I don’t go to the doctor to be treated blindly. There’s that feeling when you’re around doctors that your just another case. I don’t feel dignity and respect are high on the list for them. It’s all about efficiency of treatment which leaves people as being kind of subjects and that’s about it. Doctors might argue with me on this one and they can if they want, but the mere fact that so many men won’t go to the doctor proves my point. If you didn’t know, most men shut down when they feel they are not being respected. If a man dosn’t feel respected somewhere, he will avoid being there. This is true in all kinds of areas - especially marriages. Perhaps one day I’ll write my undertanding of marriage and men and women sometime.
I want to go to the doctor to be informed about what I have, what causes it, and what can fix it. I suppose that’s an inefficient way to run a practice - taking the time to keep all your patients up to speed on everything you are thinking and planning in regards to their ailment.
So I think I am destined to always be irritated by doctors. At least…some of them.