So much yes to this post. This tracks with about everything I’ve experienced so far. It also makes me appreciate even more the close friends I have in the medical profession; I know I can trust them to review ideas, think about them, theorize, and suggest other areas for research at a level that is appropriate for my skillset. In private, they admit to proposing numerous luck based treatments that panned out. Our hardware is complicated, and we have extremely limited monitoring and visibility on it. Doctors that aren’t burned out and are curious know that painfully well.
Personally, I’ve been doing a lot of investigation and understanding into my own health. Understanding my biochem, understanding the various subsystems, keeping good records myself instead of relying on our piss poor medical facility information management to do it. In the current environment, the only person that’s going to take care of you is yourself, and it’s best to train that up as a skill even if you’re lucky enough to have a good doctor. You won’t have that doctor forever.
Personalized medicine is a long way away; when I get to the point that I need substantial medical care, I plan to shop around for a doctor that I can spend time with, and hire them on a retainer basis as a personal physician. If nothing else, I’ll have them as an advocate to help me deal with specialists who don’t know me and don’t care.
So much yes to this post. This tracks with about everything I’ve experienced so far. It also makes me appreciate even more the close friends I have in the medical profession; I know I can trust them to review ideas, think about them, theorize, and suggest other areas for research at a level that is appropriate for my skillset. In private, they admit to proposing numerous luck based treatments that panned out. Our hardware is complicated, and we have extremely limited monitoring and visibility on it. Doctors that aren’t burned out and are curious know that painfully well.
Personally, I’ve been doing a lot of investigation and understanding into my own health. Understanding my biochem, understanding the various subsystems, keeping good records myself instead of relying on our piss poor medical facility information management to do it. In the current environment, the only person that’s going to take care of you is yourself, and it’s best to train that up as a skill even if you’re lucky enough to have a good doctor. You won’t have that doctor forever.
Personalized medicine is a long way away; when I get to the point that I need substantial medical care, I plan to shop around for a doctor that I can spend time with, and hire them on a retainer basis as a personal physician. If nothing else, I’ll have them as an advocate to help me deal with specialists who don’t know me and don’t care.