Friday, May 02, 2008

According to the doctor I see at the Alternative Medical Clinic people who are disabled since childhood know how to ask for what they need but people who are disabled as adults don’t know how to ask for what they need. I asked the doctor for one of my medications to be renewed. The doctor did not hear me correctly. What she heard me asking was for a medication prescribed by another one of my doctors. I repeated the name of the medication many times and I wasn’t heard correctly. Finally when I referred to the medicine by it’s dosage suddenly the doctor heard me correctly. I never had this trouble with any coventional medical doctor, just this alternative medical doctor.
My conclusion, it doesn’t matter when a person is disabled. What does matter is whether the doctor will listen to the disabled person.

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