Re: Talking to surgeon about problems

[Guest guest]

Abso!

If everybody else walks with pleasure over hot coals, that does not

mean that you should be able to do so, as well.

Docs who think otherwise are nutty!

C.

>

> I am in the same position as you, but with my ortho instead. He's

a good man,

> only he won't listen to anything I tell him if I don't bring facts

(like if I bite

> my tongue, I need to show him where, how bad, etc.). If I simply

complain

> about a treatment, he won't consider listening to me.

>

> So the approach I developped over the years is to be goal

oriented. I don't

> question his methods, the equipment he uses, the hardware he

installs, I

> simply tell him how I feel, what wrong this is doing to me, and

suggest

> possible solutions. In most of the times, this works well. If I

don't like

> the results, I ask him how to make things different, I don't

critic the results.

> Because otherwise, we have a sort of argument and it always ends

the

> same way : I critic too much, I'm the worst patient, blah blah

blah...

>

> When he brings the " everybody else is ok with this, why don't you

accept

> it... " line, I always make sure he understands that my needs are

my own

> and not amount of comparison with the rest of the world will

change that.

>

> Ray