to think people that just believe unquestionably what doctors say are naïve

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So my sisters ds age 2 has very bad eczema, i used to have the same but changed my diet and it cleared up in months despite taking prescription stuff for decades that only made it a bit better.

So ds go said to my sister eczema is nothing to do with diet. She just beleives him and is ignoring me.

Medical advice is changing all the time, it wasn't that long ago doctors were advertising cigarettes.

Aibu to think she is very naive?

Yep because after 5 years in medical school they learn absolutely nothing....

coldjerseyspud you are talking through your hat. I have bought the Textbooks for several of my DCs who trained to be Doctors. They were so huge I could have used them for the foundations for a house.

Imagine having to learn about EVERY condition that affects EVERy part of the human body and be utterly knowledgable about it. ONE mistake and you could get sued and lose your job. WE DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT THE BILLIONS OF TIMES DOCTOS GET IT RIGHT.
After 5 years of unrelenting exams, it doesn't stop there. They have two years in hospital (7 years of learning) with more tough exams. If they train to be a Surgeon, there are more exams. Royal College of Surgeons Part one and Two. All very hard and expensive exams to take coupled with practical examination vivas. GP training takes three years all with more exams. They have to pay around £400/600 an exam as well.

My daughter rang me up recently and told me about her efforts in trying to save a baby in A&E. Both she and I cried, because despite the teams best efforts, the dear baby died. Listening and dealing with others pain takes it toll as well. I have a DC, inner city GP suffering from Depression. My children are utterly dedicated and I am not having someone say that they don't learn anything in Medical School. I know otherwise.

Of course you shouldn't believe everything a Doctor says because they CANT know everything. However I would rather trust what my Doctor says than an untrained friend of a friend.

Doctors need to be more open minded and open to suggestions. Their medical training doesn't encourage this.

So who do doctors need to listen to? Loonbags with google?

Yes, of course, I forgot, the entire population are just brainless zombies who can't be trusted to know anything about their bodies.

I went to see the nurse the other day for a new patient check up. She dipped my urine and declared that it was full of glucose. I went to investigate further and it turned out she'd been holding the urinalysis test stick the wrong way up

Your life in their hands eh?

coldjerseyspud so sorry as you were being ironic! ( blushes) a senior moment with knobs on?

Years ago I had to decide whether or not to train as a medical doctor -what dissuaded me was remembering something that had happened years before.
I was in the A&E dept of the old Westminister hospital sitting in a curtained cubicle waiting to be treated for a bad cut ...
There was this horrendous smell ...a rotting meat, retch provoking smell.
It came from the next cubicle where the Dr was treating a homeless person who was known to them and had problems with his feet -from eavesdropping it turned out he came in often to get out of the cold, they tried to treat him, he went off again and came back a week or so later in the same dressings, same rotting feet...
I thought would I be able to deal with those feet? what about if he needed an intimate examination? if his feet were that bad what was the rest of him like ...and finally I just didn't have the patience and understanding - I would have got angry - he was wasting my time, wasn't following my advice (although to be fair he did have some excuse) basically he was letting his feet remain like that, not helping himself, even though I suspect he must have been in a lot of pain. I would get too frustrated. I couldn't deal with that.
Also think about the Drs who have to tell people they have terminal illnesses or a loved one has or is going to die...the one's they just can't save.

So while they get things wrong sometimes, they don't know everything, they are human, make mistakes I know I couldn't do their job ...so I have the utmost respect for them.

Ah it's ok. Sarcasm does come accross over the Internet too well. Have some and some and we'll say no more about it.

*doesnt

Nice post, unlucky.

There are good GP's and bad ones. I 've seen a lot of articles on lack of fat in diet and eczema : my sisters best friend at sixth form had it so bad she was hospitalised and i so felt for her. Hers cleared up with different diet.

Other gems off poor (rubbish) GP's I have had:

• u cant be pregnant & take antidepressants even tho you get suicidal if you dont, its not allowed you will have to manage without(her Practice Partner was gobsmacked when i told him that one).
  Or again from her, if you went back to work you wouldnt be depressed My ex GP counsellor who has years of experience in mental health told me that Drs get one afternoon in MH training during their whole degree.....

Worst of all my Dads Dr told us he was having a breakdown. He had a brain tumour. 6 months of fannying about later and my Dad being in severe pain before GP finally got diagnosis right and ordered a brain scan. My Dad told him he thought he had a brain tumour at the first appt - and he laughed.

The list off other friends re Dr's and huge feckups and mis diagnosis is endless. I suppose we are all fallible, but ....

YANBU in saying that people who unquestioningly believe in doctors are naive. People need to take some responsibility for their own health and GPs are just that - general practitioners.