Diagnosis - Prognosis - Treatment
Diagnosis, Prognosis and treatment are all necessary requirements before you can find answers to you dis-ease. More then 50% of all Diagnosing or treatments are inaccurate or simply wrong. When the diagnosis is wrong the prognosis and treatment are also wrong. More then 75% percent of all dis-eases have to be diagnosed by symptoms alone. There is no clinical tests that can be done to determine what is wrong. This leaves the doctor with having to guess by process of elimination what disease he will treat. A misdiagnosed disease leads to the wrong medication which can lead to serious side effects and even death. There are at least 20 disease for every group of symptoms that a patient may have. This is why doctors, scientists, lab technicians, AMA, WHO and the CDC recommend always getting a 2nd and 3rd opinion, even on simple diseases.
Doctors can no longer and will no longer be responsible for your entire health. This is why you are required to sign so many releases before seeing a new doctor. The HMO's have really figured it out. When you sign up for an HMO you have actually without knowing it have signed papers that stop any form of litigation against the doctor or HMO in a court room or with a jury trial. All that is allowed is a simple litigation using in most cases 2 retired judges to determine the outcome of the case. This may be unfair but this is how difficult it is to get a proper diagnosis and treatment.
They say its not good to know more then your doctor. Its turns out that the general public learns more about their health then their doctors do. Who has time to really research your health? Definitely not your doctor. Knowing more about your health then your doctor can save your life. Knowing what questions to ask and what blood tests to request can help your doctor help you find solutions.
