Way too many doctors forget about the human behind the patient. They see a problem to solve, and bristle when those problems don’t uncritica
Way too many doctors forget about the human behind the patient. They see a problem to solve, and bristle when those problems don’t uncritically accept their diagnosis and treatment, or lack thereof. They have to maneuver around annoying things like a person’s religious beliefs, distrust of medicine, or god forbid a desire to be a functioning human being despite their illnesses. A recent op-ed was published in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 2022—Need for Integrating Dosing Benchmarks With Shared Decision-Making.” Quite a mouthful, but nothing unreasonable on the face of it. No, you have to dig a little deeper and read the text to find the ignorant drivel of doctors who have no interest in understanding their patients. The opinion piece is about the implementation of using something called the Shared Decision-Making method, where patients and doctors work together to make a treatment plan for their condition. That sounds perfectly fine to me. However, according to the authors, it is a problem to use it with people taking prescription opioids. The reason? We’re irrational, of course.
Latest from the #Painkills Project. Finally finished this fucker! Took way longer than intended, but I was mad and had a lot to say.
