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u/cyanocobalamin · 44 pointsr/RedditForGrownups

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Like everyone else, I recommend a second opinion.

A few years ago I read a book called "How Doctors Think'. It was by an MD and a medical school professor who developed mysterious pains in his hands and who went through an ordeal to get correctly diagnosed and helped. He used his own story to illustrate how the system works and how communicating with doctors in different ways get different results.

One of the most important things the book had to say was when you get a second opinion, do NOT tell the second doctor what the first doctor said. Do not even tell them you visited anyone else.

I've also read and heard many stories of Dentist A saying X and Dentist B saying Y. No disrespect to anyone who is a dental professional but I have gotten the impression that opinions about what needs to be done can vary a lot between dentists.

If it turns out everything your dentist says is true, like someone else wrote, ask if there is a payment plan. If not, ask if the work can be spaced out over years to fit your insurance or if it all has to be done ASAP. Also, a different dentist may have a payment plan where yours does not.

As someone else mentioned it is possible to get cheaper dental work at dental schools.

It is also possible to do "dental tourism" and get cheaper dental work in foreign countries.

I haven't done either, so do you own research and use your own judgment.

Thanks for making me inadvertently feeling better. Due to a bad experience I've avoided dentists for a chunk of my early adult life. A few years ago I got up the balls to go see one. I escaped only needing a modest amount of work. However at my last visit I needed more. It was painful, humiliating, and expensive.

What you wrote showed me it could be much worse so I feel grateful for my circumstances.

Thank you.


u/likitmtrs · 5 pointsr/ChronicPain

I wanted to agree with Miss_Glittah_Stain about finding another doctor. Go out of the area if you need to. Consider medical marijuana if it's legal in your state.

Also, I highly recommend the book "How Doctors Think". It helped me a great deal in how I portray myself to doctors and therapists. Also how I show pain to doctors. It's super easy to read and well worth the purchase price. You can probably even find it used. I just wanted to pass that along.

Good luck to you and I'm so sorry they are treating you so badly. I also have some bad back problems although I don't think mine are quite as bad as yours and I take narcotics. I find the issues you are running into just bizarre and cruel. I hope something changes for you soon.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Doctors-Think-Jerome-Groopman/dp/0547053649/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1415012832&sr=8-1&keywords=how+doctors+think

u/shri07vora · 2 pointsr/medicalschool

Atul Gawande - Better, Complications, and checklist manifesto.

Sandeep Jauhar - Intern

Jerome Groopman - How doctor's think

Michael Collins - Hot lights, cold steel and Blue collar, blue scrubs

Samuel Shem - House of God

Brian Eule - Match day

Paul Ruggieri - Confessions of a surgeon

Emily R. Transue - On call

Okay so I was in the same position you are in right now. I wanted to read as much as I could because I truly found it fascinating. I read these books and I'm glad I did. These books just give you an idea of how hard doctors work and what the life of a doctor is like. Another recommendation is Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. It has nothing to do with medicine but I read it and I think you should too. He talks about the life of a chef and how perfection and long long hours are demanded of him. I feel like there are some overlaps between the different settings. Chef/doctor and Restaurant/hospital. Anyways, This list should last you a long time. Hope you enjoy.


Edit: Added links.

u/GL_HaveFun · 1 pointr/dysautonomia

Dude, don't give up. Doctors so often just give up on tryng to really find a diagnosis for their patients when it gets too complicated. There's a good book on a lot of these misbehaviors and miscommunications I'm working through (because often my doctors latch onto simpler diagnosis as well) called How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman - http://smile.amazon.com/How-Doctors-Think-Jerome-Groopman/dp/0547053649/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418403865&sr=8-1&keywords=how+doctors+think&pebp=1418403868809

u/bluenoser613 · 1 pointr/Celiac