This isn't a post to bash doctors. I think most of them have good intentions and work hard to help as many as they can. But, as many of us know, things fall through the cracks.
Have you noticed the differences between how one doctor interprets data vs. Another?
I wonder if it's me and the way I present info or it's just their different views. Is it education? Experience? General personality? Bias? What have you noticed and how do you ascertain how much faith to put in one doctor vs. Another?
I recently started seeing a new GP. I gave her a basic rundown of my symptoms, she recommended some blood tests. Some of them were flagged as abnormal in whatever standardized system they have. She reviewed it and decided there wasn't anything to worry about. She suggested some vitamins and told me to go about as I have been. I was super disheartened but resigned. Maybe it *is* nothing and I'm just being a crazy baby or something???
Today I went to a different doctor cause mine is out of office for a couple weeks. I just wanted a new or stronger inhaler as my asthma has been flaring up.
He looked at the exact same blood results and was surprised that I wasn't given any followup referrals. He submitted referrals for a pulmonologist, hematologist, gastro, and cardiologist. That's a LOT of different places to go. He thinks I need an iron or blood transfusion. He doesn't understand why my seriously low anemia was ignored. Idfk. I didn't know what to say. He ran out of time.
Idk what to think. I'll follow through with his recs but I'm just overwhelmed by it all.