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Why do doctors not care about visual snow?

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Author: Klaus Podoll, Markus Dahlem, Sofia Greene	10. June 2008
Edited by: Klaus Podoll, Markus Dahlem, Sofia Greene

Why do doctors not care about visual snow?

Golden Girl speaks up

"Yesterday, I was watching the 80's television show, The Golden Girls, where four elderly women share a house in Miami, Florida. One of the women, Dorothy, was feeling sick all of the time, going to doctors who told her that it was just her age, just her imagination, and to go see a shrink. Dorothy ended up finding out that it was Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was relieved that she was not going crazy. While at a restaurant, she ran into one of her first doctors that told her that it was all in her head - this is what she said.

Dr. Budd, I came to you sick… sick and scared, and you dismissed me. You didn't have the answer and instead of saying, 'I'm sorry. I don't know what's wrong with you.' You made me feel crazy like… like I had made it all up. You dismissed me. You made me feel like a child… a fool… a neurotic who was wasting your precious time. Is that your caring profession? Is that healing? No one deserves that kind of treatment, Dr. Budd. No one. I suspect if I had been a man I might have been taken a bit more seriously and not told to go to a hairdresser. I don't know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it. You know, if all of you, at the beginning of your careers could get very sick and very scared for a while, you'd probably learn more from that than anything else. You'd better start listening to your patients. They need to be heard. They need caring. They need compassion. They need attending to. You know, someday Dr. Budd, you are going to be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am, and as angry as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.

I think her statement pretty much sums it up for all of us who feel that our doctors don't care.

Also, one of Dorothy's mother's comments on that same show… 'How many people died from the back plague before they called it the black plague? There has to be a name for what Dorothy has.'

How many of us feel the same way?"

(ChelleWMCN [subject #272], Yuju forum Visual snow or static - General discussions - Golden Girl speaks up, June 10, 2008)

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