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Yikes! Good thing you got that second oppinion.
Over ten years back my family on a regular vacation to our cabbin up north, did some thing new there. We decided to walk a river and Dad refused to wear pool shoes like Mom was badgering him to. Hours later, after we had been in the cabin for a while dad took off his shoe and the shoe and sock were saturated in blood! He had also refused to wear pool shoes in the lake the cabbin is located on before the river jaunt (but nothing bad has happened at the lake before or since so the river is the likely suspect). A leech had gotten between his toes and had been there a long time. To make a long story short that leech gave Dad a rare infection which eventually got to the point that Dads leg was pulsing red and extremely swolen, and we feared that he would loose it.
The doctor was gearing up for some convention, and really dropped the ball on diagnosing Dad, and instead of acknoledging his mistake and doing everything in his power to help Dad he entered cover his ass mode and began to hinder efforts to help Dad. We aren't the type of folks to sue doctors, but this made Mom so mad that she contemplated it. It was a mystery problem untill from touching/being around dad milder versions of the thing got me Mom and the cat to have our hands turn redish and burn where we had contact. Mom then went to the local VET who knew more about medicine that the doctor and asked what diseases with matching symptoms to this could affect both cats and humans, and the vet gave her two possibilities that she soon researched, and when she told the doctor to test for one which there was a test for the doctor (Bastard) stalled untill it was too late for the test to detect it!
Dad probably would have lost his leg if he was not a joger.
The doctors kept the mutual cover ass mode untill well into Mom having a hospitalizing case of it. Hers lead to some as of yet still undiagnosed stomach problem that can be for the most part controled (It can still leave her bedridden if she is not careful).
This whole event left me and especially my folks permanently weary of doctors, and in the case of Moms bug Pissed that they tend to be so arrogent that they will tell you that you must be Imagining things or wrong as soon as you get a alement that is outside their experience. Most doctors simply believe that they know everything and are infalible when such a mind set is not only dead wrong, but also harmfull to all whom they treat.
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