Wrist Pain?

[SteveToms]

WTF? I was just asking the course of action to take, I have never had a injury before, and I needed to know what to do. I have a normal doctor of course, and not only do you come in here after my question is answered, and I thank for the help, you come in here and be a prick. Seriously not needed.

[NuclearFart]

Chill out dude,

Seeing as how your question revolved around medical issues, I figured you might like an answer from someone in the industry. I just didnt follow your question, and I did not mean any harm.
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Cocaine rehab forum

[joe_mullen]

Originally Posted by Thunderball

actually, my comment was a joke, and a suggestion.

It sounds like you have soft tissue damage. Unfortunate thing with that is its a real pain in the ass to heal up. It needs to be kept stationary and confined to heal properly.

I'd avoid Walk-Ins like the plague. They are incompetent 95% of the time, and got their degree in Belize or Pakistan or Downtown Basement Medical College on E. Hastings or somewhere dodgy...

Actually, the walk-in docs all across this country are generally extremely competent. In order to be a practicing physician in Canada, one has to pass all the specified licensing exams and unless you are from the UK and parts of the USA, you also have to finish a full length residency program in Canada, regardless of your prior level of medical training/experience. Walk-in family medicine is arguably the hardest form of medicine to practice as it generally involves crowded waiting rooms with lots of pressure for the MD to see as many patients as possible and limited resources available for the physicians as well (ie. old charts and diagnostic tests/devices).

[Tower]

Might be just as simple as a bone out of alignment... Happens all the time. A chiropractor can fix that. I was a massage therapist for a number of years. Well I still am but not practicing....

[NuclearFart]

Originally Posted by joe_mullen

Actually, the walk-in docs all across this country are generally extremely competent. In order to be a practicing physician in Canada, one has to pass all the specified licensing exams and unless you are from the UK and parts of the USA, you also have to finish a full length residency program in Canada, regardless of your prior level of medical training/experience. Walk-in family medicine is arguably the hardest form of medicine to practice as it generally involves crowded waiting rooms with lots of pressure for the MD to see as many patients as possible and limited resources available for the physicians as well (ie. old charts and diagnostic tests/devices).

I agree with you. Paradoxically, I think it's the hardest field of medicine to be very good at, but the it's also simultaneously the easiest field to be very bad at. Unfortunately, when a few walk in GP's just throw scripts at everything without even touching the patient, it gives the whole field a bad name. Not to mention some of the ludicrous referal's I've occasionally seen, which are a thinly veiled turf to get the patient out of their office without dealing with the issues. I think these are the minority of GP's though.

But yes on the whole, I have alot of respect for GP's (especially the good ones), and in addition to the points you've mentioned, they serve the critical role of "quarter backing" a patient through the world of healthcare.
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LovelyWendie99

[Cain]

If the GP does not find anything wrong and the pain still occurs then I'd encourage you to keep at it.

I have been dealing with pretty bad wrist pain in one of mine for a few years now...and since it has recently become more severe, I've been to see both a GP and a specialist. The GP didn't find anything, while the specialist seemingly did, so in my case it paid off to be persistent, especially if the pain you have might be caused by something elusive and hard to find. The wrist/hand has a ton of really small bones/ligaments that might be tough to pinpoint.

However, I'm not sure how you would get to see a specialist if the GP really didn't think there was anything there...luckily I received a bit of help to get to where I did.