Medical rules

Skeeter · 1 May 2013 at 12:47

Yeah, I can see how the attitude might annoy people, but the key points are all perfectly valid.

TATT is a great example. Being tired is a symptom of some illnesses, but its not the ONLY symptom. If all you have to tell your Dr is that you "feel a bit tired" then it means you are just a bit tired.

postbox · 1 May 2013 at 12:53

Skeeter said:
Yeah, I can see how the attitude might annoy people, but the key points are all perfectly valid.

TATT is a great example. Being tired is a symptom of some illnesses, but its not the ONLY symptom. If all you have to tell your Dr is that you "feel a bit tired" then it means you are just a bit tired.

Then I would argue it's up to the Dr to ask a couple of probing questions to establish why exactly you feel more tired than usual.

The whole Man Up thing is worrying as well, most men don't go to the Dr in fear that they will lose Man points, even though they may have an very valid reason for doing so.

Bennie-Mac · 1 May 2013 at 12:57

Rule 5 - "Consulting your doctor is a last resort"

Having recently been to the doctor for chronic back pain this was most definitely not the case, and I got questioned why I hadn't come to him sooner with the problem. I told him "I AM A MAN SO I MANNED UP AND DEALT WITH IT, BUT NOW ITS ACTUALLY A REAL PROBLEM." To which I was basically told I was stupid. Which I was.

[FnG]magnolia · 1 May 2013 at 12:59

In my experience, GPs are viewed with a fairly high level of disdain by the more specialist medical professionals and clinicians so I'm not entirely sure the apparent chip on this guy's shoulder is that unexplainable. It's almost a waterfall effect.

That's both in the UK and here in New Zealand, for what it's worth.

gillywibble · 1 May 2013 at 13:34

encephalopathy said:
made me chuckle.

You may be ill.

CREATIVE!11 · 1 May 2013 at 16:05

itt Loadsa mad people who can't take a joke

YEA U ALL HEARD ME

U MAD!

platypus · 1 May 2013 at 16:18

CREATIVE!11 said:
itt Loadsa mad people who can't take a joke

YEA U ALL HEARD ME

U MAD!

It's a "hilarious" take on The Rules of Cycling, which falls somewhat short of being funny.

CREATIVE!11 · 1 May 2013 at 16:23

platypus said:
It's a "hilarious" take on The Rules of Cycling, which falls somewhat short of being funny.

platypus · 1 May 2013 at 16:26

CREATIVE!11 said:

Hey I at least took it less seriously than most

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SHEDDER1uk · 1 May 2013 at 16:33

I have never been to the doctors and been in when my appointment said so. Usually between 5 and 15 mins late.

elmarko · 1 May 2013 at 17:18

Stupid list tbh.

I don't expect my GP to understand propensity score matching or logistic regression/statistics - they shouldn't expect me to know anything about health (I do, but that was my own choice).

Minstadave · 1 May 2013 at 18:18

Your GP doesn't expect you to know anything about medicine, just take some responsibility for your own health and use some common sense.

Destination · 1 May 2013 at 20:09

Minstadave said:
All sounds pretty sensible to me.

Mostly agreed.