Early this year I broke my arm in two places and I was in the ER. Two doctors said it was complicated and i had to drive 150 miles to a hand specialist and he wanted to operate on my arm, putting a plate and a bunch of screws in my arm. I chose not to have the operation. That was 8 months ago and my arm feels good. It aches every once in a while but It is feeling good and I have full use of my hand. I'm glad i did not have that operation. I think I get a lot of bad medical advice.

In 2014 i had some pain in my hands near my knuckles which was from heavy weight lifting at the gym...I went to the doc & had xrays & he told me both my hands had fractures
That was impossible. However i did nothing about it coz i knew my body & i knew i never fractured it.....few days later i completely recovered with no tratment & today my strength levels have increased from back then & no pain in my hand...which inititally started from over training...

Doctors can give the wrong advice & it's always best to get a second opinion

Well Cat, thats what happens when yiubdo the electric slide in the shower! Jkd.

I had a sports injury. I broke my skull at the T1 vertabrea. I was totally paralized for 2 weeks. The doctors wanted to remove the broken piece of skull at the base of my neck. They wanted to fuse my skull to my T1!
I asked what will happen if i dont get the op. Well, you may have pain in your spine, the rest of your life, you might bump your head and severe yiur spinal cord. You may loose feeling in parts of your body. And Arthritis.

I refused the surgery. My paralisis left. I did loose feeling in my scalp back and sides. Other than that ive been fine. I didnt play football anymore. But i had my 3 sons, and i've never regreted not getting the operation. Cool thing is when my hair is long and my kids wanted to climb up on me, i would hang my head down and the would hang on my scalp.

I think a lot of doctors scare people into operations that they don't really need.

in 2003 i had a very serious motorbike accident. my right leg tibia broke from 2 places and it was out of flesh.
the doc who made my operation was great !! but he decided to carry on his career in a bigger city. because there were multiple breaks and one was what they called a compound one, the healing could take up to 6 months. so i was left to the hands of a new doctor.

after 6 months there was still not a significant healing.
and the new doctor said he will have to make "series" of operations (6 operations) and he would firstly have to put a metal brace / support screwed to my bone.
i thought.. if my bone is not healthy and not healing, that means it is not strong. and new screws and metal fixings will possibly cause secondary breaks.

still didnt want to decide myself. i asked my cousins who are very good doctors working in America. they agreed with me. what the doctor advised was not logical.
it was a private hospital and 6 operations and all that stuff would bring him good money so he was of course willing to go that way.

so i said i am not having those operations or the brace or whatsoever.
he said "then i cannot be ur doctor if u do not trust my advices"
i said "fine. i will visit you when i heal, my own way"
it took long. at least another 6 months with physical therapy. very hard times!! dont want to remember.. but then eventually i had my x-rays showing that my bone has totally healed.

rushed to his room. i put the x-rays on his desk like throwing.
i said "i won." he looked so blank !! i said "i didnt have 6 operations which would take years and years. no metals, supports. sorry you couldnt make money over me. you lost."
he said "no you misunderstood me.." bla bla bla. i didnt listen. walked out..


couple of years later i have heard that he had to leave the hospital and the town as he had done SOME wrong operations and caused some people to carry on disabled..

i was lucky to be brave enough to go my way at such a big decision..

Yes it was xrayed & i saw what looked like dislocations & at the time i thought it could be from punching walls coz i used to punch concrete walls to test my strength lol. Strange thing is i never treated the pain & continued lifting & it healed on its own & i've never experienced it again

Our health service in the UK is fantastic, it's under strain at the moment because of numbers but regardless it's still an amazing organisation.
You will always get a bad egg among thousands of Doctors and although you do hear of the odd horror story they are few and far between.

I have nothing but respect and admiration for the health service.

I have had a few surgeries and most all of the doctors were good.. some very good. But I have had one or two who had no bedside manner... And I told them so.

On the other hand I have found the nurses to always go above and beyond. Every dealing I had with a nurse I was left thinking that she really cared about my well being.

I hold doctors to a high respect point, but I hold nurses.. higher.

JMO

I agree totally. My ex went to 2 quacks in a box plus an ambulance ride to the emergency room. The docs at the urgent care ( quacks in a box) heard allergies and said that was the problem. The doc at the emergency room told her it possibly could be menengitus. Which was going on at a college campus. He wanted to do a spinal tap. I said no. So he gave her some antibiotics that were wrong for her.
A couple days later her regular nurse practitioner said it was a sever u.t.i. took her off the antibiotics and gave her a zpac. She was cured In no time..