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They had to restrict how medicare subsidizes thyroid function tests here because so many gullible people were demanding endless tests for things they don't really understand
Have you run into that autoimmune self-diagnosis syndrome?
hypochondria, or everyone thinking they have hashimoto's disease?
The latter
I haven't done much clinic work, mostly inpatient. I'm sure I will
muh thyroid
muh fibromyalgia
Hypochondria is too pejorative a term at this stage
It refers to making shit up instead of health anxiety
I go out of my way to use antiquated 1950s medical lingo
especially for psych stuff
Because it's pejorative? 😛
yes
and when presenting patients I never omit their race
Health anxiety tends to be experienced through strange unassailable psychosomatic phenomena whereas making shit up is different
Or so I noticed in a good friend of mine
He is extremely truthful but had weird aches and pains in his abdomen and he got worked up and thought he was gonna die. Went to a bunch of doctors but they couldn't find anything
Not at all the kind of dude to make stuff up, but something was wrong that couldn't be identified and may not have been there in a physical sense
Race is important
Hugely important
if I tell you a patient is hypertensive and diabetic and you think he's black but actually he's white, that changes everything
I worked with one girl who actually specifies it down to nationality
"65 year old polish male presents with..."
kind of thing
clever girl
I first did that by accident when on knee jerk impulse I couldn't help but refer to a person as "italian" because I couldn't bring myself to call him "white"
I don't see what the point of omitting the information could even conceivably be
some bs about dignity
being a politically correct retard
once I am just a few steps further in my career I am going to openly call it retarded to let even a shred of political correctness bullshit get in the way of patient care
Sure, but I'm interested in the motivation that culminates in that
What these people are thinking to be PC retards
I have seen trannies be written in the medical notes as the gender they are trying to be, not as their real gender
I made a scene about it too with the other doctors
In some sense, y'know, I think that's what they want
"what the hell is this? that's a woman abusing testosterone, not a man! are you going to do surgery and find ovaries and not even know what you're dealing with?"
To find a hill to die on, in this case it's a barren mons pubis
"are you going to think that is a man with no penis and a randomly fucked up lipid profile, or realize it's a woman on anabolic steroids?"
in my view doctors should be SCIENTISTS
and there is no "believe" in science