Even worse, it seems the same to me now as it was in the '70s!
11/02/10 11:55 AM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 7799
Loc: Seattle, WA
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That's when I first saw doctors for IBS (though of course it was decades before I was actually properly diagnosed). And the comments, attitude, lack of tests, lack of treatments, lack of anything remotely helpful or reassuring, is frighteningly similar to the stories I still hear from people today.
I know there are great docs out there for IBS - I've met some and heard of many others - but there are still far, far, far too many who are exactly like the incompetent, ignorant, unsympathetic, and flat out awful docs (from pediatricians to internists to gastroenterologists) I dealt with almost 40 years ago.
I swear there is something peculiar about IBS and doctors that leads to horror stories I just don't hear about with, say, dermatologists or opthamologists. I really hope that is at least starting to change.
- H
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