alt Hacker NewsAll the best for your family member!
> Doctors are used to nuts who googled the symptoms
When you were there, did you have anything else to come with than the symptoms of your family member? In other words, how did you look different to the doctor than somebody who just googled their symptoms? (Or, to put it differently, without meaning disrespect, in which way were actually different from cases you referred to in the above quote?)
I used the doctor's words. I had them chart EVERYTHING and got a copy of the chart. I then highlighted the oddball items and wrote out the history of cancers in the family. I also showed that the family member had no history of back problems, no abnormal development to cause it, and hadn't done anything lifting or otherwise to cause it.
And then I sat in the nurses station until the doctor finally took time to listen. They threatened to get security, but I just kept my head and kept pointing at the things the doctor himself wrote.
I didn't try to interpret anything, I didn't do any diagnosing myself and I didn't try to act like he didn't know what he was doing. I just kept saying that it was more serious and we needed a second opinion.
Does that help?