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Originally Posted by fotze2
Damn that sucks. I think the general view is that all doctors know everything but it seems to be more of a specialty thing. I'm an engineer but if anything electrical comes up, I am a complete imbicile as with thousands of other engineer subjects. Maybe doctors are the same.
My cardiologist has told me for the past 15 years I was not allowed to lift more than 15 pounds and could not skate with my kids unless I wore a chest shield for fear of a puck hitting me, among other things about exertion, so I have lived an emasculated lame life for so long sleepless and scared. When I met my eventual surgeon for the first time I told him this in passing, thinking that was common advice. He started laughing saying "she told you that? HAHHAHA, She's an overprotective grandmother, complete nonsense".
I was relieved to hear it but at the same time I've wasted ten years of my life being scared to live, believing that, so now I am a little pissed off TBH.
That's why I cannot stand the "trust the science" phrase. Its a phrase by morons who don't understand science. There is not a hivemind of science, there are massive differences of opinion which makes it science by its design.
Science is about not trusting the science. You ever see the squabbles between professors in a faculty at a university? It's not a bunch of Jedis talking like Yoda to each other. Sorry for the rant.
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To be fair, I think a lot of aspects about healthcare are more art than science. Or perhaps the interpretation of how to apply the science best. It sounds like your first doctor wasn't very good at applying it. But there is also a #### load of voodoo no one really understands, particularity when it comes to medicine. I'm not sure that has it make sense to not trust the science.
It's like how people have been convinced to not trust mainstream media by deceitful liars, and the alternative is ingesting mounds of feces. Which they seem happy enough to do. What's the alternative to not trusting medical science? Oh ya, horse paste.