[Hetty_Fauxvert]

There are MANY crap doctors around, and have been for centuries. Socialized medicine sucks but you can’t blame pure stupidity on that. My mother had ovarian cancer, and was told for months by her idiot doctor that she had a bladder infection. Months! And he never followed up with more tests or sent her to a gyn. (I was living in another state at the time and she never told me on the phone what was going on.) By the time we got a proper diagnosis for her, she was only two weeks from her death. Far too sick to be treated successfully.

Sorry for the rant. I’m lucky now that our family has several excellent docs (that I hope we don’t lose to Obamacare). But doctor stupidity has been around for a long time.

[garandgal]

My Dad was told for months that he had pneumonia...even after a CT scan. Turns out that the "shadow" on the bottom of his lung was actually a giant tumor in the bile ducts of his liver pushing up into his lung. You could CLEARLY see even on the X-rays that preceded the scan that his lung was deformed from something from below (those were shown to us much later after diagnosis at a different hospital).

That Radiologist had his license yanked for....get this...being basically legally blind; but only after a nurse who worked at the facility suffered a similar misdiagnosis.

Bile duct cancer is BAD, so not saying that earlier diagnosis would have changed his outcome much...but by the time he ended up in a decent hospital it was too late for much of anything. He was dead in less than three months at 62.

Morons abound in all aspects of society...people need to understand that and act accordingly.