Yes, Doctors are the experts in medicine in that particular field,
for example gastroenterologist, I would say have max to max 20% book knowledge,
50% direct knowledge from the disease that he or she treats but no doctors can
claim 100% that he or she knows 100% about gastroenterologist. What about medicine mix, does he or she has
even 20% knowledge apart from what he or she is being provided by the
pharmaceuticals industry who are apt at hiding unwanted and dangerous information
about the medicine that if you come to know, you will stop and look for
alternative medicines or practices. Also
Doctors have to update yourself with new research and books and medicines but
do you think after out of college majority who are practicing do that, after
joining the industry it is the knowledge from the patients that can take a
doctor to his/her objective of treating the patient if he/she listens to the
patients but in this world of speed, time is money, hence very few doctors take
the trouble of giving much time to what a patient says and sometimes this can
prove disastrous for the patient and the patient can lose her/his life. Here is the article about a case long time
back from which you will understand that you need to tell your doctor what all
happened, side effects, other issues while taking modern medicine and the
doctor’s duty is to hear patiently and ponder and come to a conclusion taking
the patient’s info as not something of imagination and also understand that out
there in the world wide web, there are truths that modern day doctors don’t know
about their practices and there is also cure for many a cancers and disease.
Here is a case where the doctor told the patient to stop googling
for information and the treatment that he was giving was 100% in correct line
of treatment which is not the case in almost 60% of the cases.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3126052/Teenage-girl-told-stop-Googling-rare-cancer-killed-left-heartbreaking-messages-begging-doctors-seriously.html
