Always Get A Second Opinion

 

Marketing superstar, publisher, and editor Clayton Makepeace indirectly reminded me of an important precaution you should take your physician or surgeon or other health care practitioner warns you of the need to submit to some cancer therapy or other treatment.

In one of his e-books he describes how in a health promotion he once wrote that, "Some surgeons are so greedy, they'll cut a hole right through you -- just to get at your wallet."

While he admitted that this was a little bit of hyperbole on his part he did warn that some operations such as and mastectomies are later found to out to have been unnecessary. And this type of thing, as well as other blunders by surgeons, physicians, and other allopathic and complementary care health care practitioners happens far too often.

Some of these things have included these misdiagnoses of the causes of symptoms, as well as making surgical mistakes, or leaving part of their surgical equipment or other debris in the body of patient after sewing them back up – or making errors in prescribing medication, or providing therapy for health problems.

Sometimes these things happen because the health care practitioners has severed time restrictions on the time he or she can devote to any one patient by government or private health care plans which prevents them from tasking enough time with patients make an accurate diagnoses and treatment plans. Sometimes it happens because of greed on the part of the health care practitioner. Sometimes it happens because of incompetence or negligence on the part of the practitioner

You can do much to protect yourself from this type of thing by building good communication between yourself and your health care practitioner. This of course will mean taking the time to learn more about your health so you can have intelligent discussions about possible treatment options with your health care provider.

You should also seek second or even third opinions from both allopathic and complementary health care providers before plunging ahead into operations or treatment programs blindly.

 

Good surgeons and physicians, truly concerned about your health and your rights – and that includes the majority of them – as well as other health care providers from the allopathic or complementary health care worlds shouldn't mind you doing this.