Have you ever been treated badly by a doctor?

I've been reading and thinking about the bad doctor phenomenon, and I have come to the conclusion that many members of the medical profession enter medicine not as a means of treating and improving people's health, but as a means of exercising absolute power and control over people, and with the added bonus of being able to treat their patients as if they wee subhuman entities, and mostly get away with it.

I have no statistics to substantiate my suspicion, but I am certain that there is a considerably high rate of sociopathy among medical doctors, as well as surgeons and lawyers. The supreme irony of this is that people who take the "Hippocratic oath" are in fact hypocrites, who instead of improving their patients mental, emotional, and physical condition, may actually exacerbate their patient's conditions and make them worse.

Manners and politeness cost nothing. Treating another human being as a human being is not an arduous task, in fact I personally find it very difficult not to treat other people in a courteous manner, and even if I don't like them. Yet for many doctors, treating their patients with some dignity and respect seems to be a virtual impossibility. It's almost as if they were rude by default. And what can you do other than make a complaint, which is usually ignored, denied, and/or dismissed.

There is something fundamentally wrong and deeply flawed among members of the medical profession, and I think that egomania may play a significant role. Someone once said to me that "surgeons don't become surgeons because they want to cure people, they become surgeons because they enjoy cutting people up". Of course I laughed, but the more I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that this might actually be true.

We have psychopaths and sadists for doctors and surgeons, and these people who are responsible for our well-being are the very same people who pose the biggest threat to our well-being, and who we need to protect ourselves against.

And that's a very scary thought.

The only problem I have with your massive generalizations about members of the medical community is that they are just that, massive generalizations. As you read in my earlier post, we dealt with one horrendous doctor whose actions were malpractice. But by far our experience has been positive rather than negative. There are awful practitioners in every occupation, but to judge the entire field on the actions of a few is in error.

The only problem I have with your massive generalizations about members of the medical community is that they are just that, massive generalizations. As you read in my earlier post, we dealt with one horrendous doctor whose actions were malpractice. But by far our experience has been positive rather than negative. There are awful practitioners in every occupation, but to judge the entire field on the actions of a few is in error.

Yes. I do not use them anymore except in rare situations when I need a bone set or antibiotics.

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I haven't wanted to get involved with this discussion because, although I am a medical provider, I personally don't like to go to the doctor myself and I know that people have legitimately negative experiences. However, the above quote is 100% wrong.

People get in to the medical field because they want to help people. Period. End of statement. People get burnt out by medicine for a variety of reasons (some valid, some not- I don't see any point in getting into that). I think a lot of the bad experiencess that people have come during interactions with burnt out providers. That doesn't change the fact that medical people (dr's, nurses, allied...), at some level, at some point wanted to do good for others.

Share your gripes, vent, that's OK. But when you make statements like that you are offensive to people who devote their lives to service to others.