Try not Hop Doctors when you are really sick. Why?
Have you ever:
Had Flu and Cough; and visited a different Doctor each time when their medication don't work.
Lets try to understand the purpose of visiting the same clinic especially when your current illness doesn't get better:
1. Every time you visit a Clinic, the doctor will take records of your condition and medication given to you (Least they should)
2. Subsequent visits to the same clinic, the doctor there is suppose to look through your medical records they documented and will re-diagnose your illness and give you another set of medication when necessary.
3. On notice of condition getting serious, they will be able to quickly refer you to hospital when necessary.
There are implications if you actually go Doctor/Clinic Hopping. Example you see "Clinic A" and find its medication quite useless as your illness did not recover. You then hop to "Clinic B" then "Clinic C". Here are what could happen:
1. As "Clinic B" does not have Medical Records from "Clinic A" which you initially visited.
2. Clinic B may end up giving you the same medication as Clinic A
3. Clinic B does not know what Clinic A monitored about you. Your first Clinic might already documented that if problem persist, it could be a more serious infection and requires hospital attention. Clinic B might not notice as he is not in the loop when first Medical observation was already done to you.
4. When you Hop to "Clinic C" because you think "Clinic B and A" does work, it goes back to square 1.
5. Possible of having too many medication and worse, not knowing what to take and take all.
6. Worst of all, it may delay treatment when illness deteriorates.
Summary:
Try to visit the same Clinic every time you are sick. Especially when you didn't get well from the initial visit. This is important. If you had remembered about SARS and other Influenza, some of the lives worldwide could have been saved if those people were brought back to the same clinic or doctors. (reason for some of their mischaps, "clinic/doctor hopping" resulted in late diagnosis and treatment.)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 ; 9:56 PM