Educate Yourself

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." ~Alexander Pope

Today, I went to the Urgent Care Centre, on the advise of TeleHealth and my friends and family, reguarding a bee sting.

Forgetting the fact that he put pen on my arm without asking, nor explaining why, when I mentioned that I have Fibro, the Dr. then took it upon himself to tell me that Fibromyalgia is not a disease that is the purview of a neurologist, but that I should be seeing a rheumatologist. That cognitive dysfunction is not a symptom of Fibro, and if I am experiencing that, it must be something else.

Since when does a General Practitioner, working out of urgent care, know enough about a disease that most specialists are still struggling to understand? Thankfully, I am a well educated patient, and knew enough not to panic and think that my specialists have been jerking me around for two years.

Fibro fog is a real thing. It manifests itself in dozens of ways, and cognitive dysfunction is part of that.

I have done my research (as has my own GP), and I have seen a rheumatologist, (which, by the way, is a bone doctor.  My pain is not bone specific), but thank you very much for your uneducated opinion.

People wonder why I hate most doctors, and why I hate going to urgent care or the ER. This, is a prime example of why.

Know thyself, and know thy limitations. Do not speak on a topic you know nothing about, casually, to a patient you have no intention of further educating.

And to all of those patients, out there, please remember that an ER or UCC Doctor is not a specialist, and they do not have your entire medical chart to look at when addressing the problem of the moment. Do not take their word as Gospel just because they are wearing scrubs -.-