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there is something peculiar about IBS and doctors that leads to horror stories I just don't hear about with, say, dermatologists or opthamologists.

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When I think of the ibs patients I've met - they're too exhausted, too sick, and too humiliated to be able to question or educate the downright wrong doctors they come across. (Who could blame them?!) I think that's what's different between them and a dermatologist's patients. Add to that, there's no local networking going on between ibs patients (thanks to the embarrassment factor, I suppose), so there's no word-of-mouth effect keeping the bad docs office's any less full than the good ones. The bad and ignorant docs get no feedback. (I know when I left a horrible GI doc in the dust, I couldn't afford to give her a backward glance - let alone a piece of my mind - PRECISELY because my kid was worse than when I walked in there!) And where I live, the docs never even feel it when a disgruntled patient leaves because they've still got months of appts. booked. Ironically, the fact that ibs is so rampant assures that. So what's to stop them from just doing what they were taught in the seventies, and even feeling pretty good about themselves, too? Ya can't make this stuff up!

[So there's the amateur analysis of an ibs mom. ]

kem (daughter w/ibs-d dx)

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