Doctor: Regulations and the environment would have to be really bad for such a young person to get cancer. Let’s discount that diagnosis and take a wait and see approach.
Must be pretty frustrating for patients.
And the doctors too, no doubt. Imagine so many patients being a high cancer risk?
I’m a young 60, and have been through cancer. Outlook is good though.
Cancer is not spiking in us middle-aged folks and older folks so it’s not so facile an answer as environment and regulations.
Yeah those doctors were raised by dismissive boomer and silent generation parents and taught by the same generations at med school. They’re largely genx (my gen so I’m very familiar with them and our attitudes), genx has largely given up and was already the grunge type gen that didn’t believe anyone about anything to start with. Add on top of that realizing as an older adult that everyone is an idiot, especially the narcissistic doctors you thought had everything under control, and they’re going to just assume everyone doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
We really should focus on training doctors to have amazing compassion, proper bedside manners, and make sure their mentors have those as well.
And as the article says, we need to address insurance problems or the issue of people having little to no access to healthcare to seek answers, and that means healthcare for all, at no out of pocket costs at the time of visits. If it’s cost prohibitive to seek answers, they won’t be sought by patients or doctors as much. As needed. And the people who run for profit insurance companies should have to pay real prices for avoidable deaths they cause in the name of denying coverage to increase profits - which likely means doing away with for profit healthcare altogether.
The type of person capable of enduring and excelling at medical school is less often the type of person you describe as the kind of doctors we need.
Not at all surprised.
My wife has Ehlers-Danlos (genetic connective tissue disorder) and at one point, in what was an altogether shitty diagnostic journey, she had a doc tell her she was too young to have EDS.
Too young to have a genetic condition. Right.
It’s even weirder/frustrating as shit working as a radiographer at a public hospital and having requests coming through looking for the rarest conditions while completely ignoring all the patient’s signs and symptoms that point right at a common, easily treatable disease.
There are good doctors out there but in my experience they are very much in the minority.
In Australia btw.
It would be nice to know what country this is without having to read half the article. This is from the U.S., not a worldwide phenomenon.
It very much happens worldwide.
Boomer fucking us yet again.
what boomer is still a doctor? sure boomers go to 61 but most doctors retire, because they can.
Their health is prioritized over that of the young.
My sister’s a Boomer and she’s 72. Boomer has become a word for middle-aged+.
Young adults
with cancer reportgetingdismissed by doctorsI’ve received very little help from healthcare professionals unless it was something obvious. Like I have an infection, I need antibiotics, then they give me antibiotics. I have something that needs to be cut off, they cut it off. Basic stuff. Anything more obscure I either ended up having to wait it out or deal with it permanently. They don’t listen. They don’t send me to the right places. The PT they sent me to appeared to do the bare minimum and never replaced one of the two different PTs I saw when they had to go on extended leave. I just stopped having both appointments each week. I always feel like I’m being rushed through a checkout line when I’m talking to a healthcare professional.
My mom told me once that you have to be EXTREMELY persistent to get anything done healthcare-wise. And that’s totally true. It’s also totally fucking unacceptable.
Seems like here in the U.S. you can only get real help if you show up dying to an ER. Seems like that’s when you get access to ACTUAL professionals. Cuz I’ve known people who have been in those situations and they appear to actually get real, dedicated help. I’ve never experienced that though.
