Doctors are Intellectually Lazy: Maybe it's time to start looking elsewhere for answersi

[sinisterporpoise]

I'm beginning to think a lot of the problems I've been having are caused by a thyroid problem, and there are a number of symptoms and now three tests that indicate this.  The most obvious test is, of course, the elevated thyroid antibodies. (There's also finding a fluid-filled cyst in my thyroid, but I understand that is merely a consequence.) The other two tests are the cholesterol test performed a while ago and a triglyceride test performed a few days ago.  Both of these numbers were slightly elevated.  Slightly elevated numbers of these things can also point to a thyroid problem.   Naturally, because the doctors have enough clues to assume that something might be going on with my thyroid, they assume the cholesterol and triglyceride numbers occurred because I'm overweight.

The programmer in me really wants to sit them down and explain to them how conditional statements work.

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[sinisterporpoise]

Note: I am just paraphrasing what the other person said in the title. I'm sorry I couldn't make that clear. I've been trying to avoid using that word.

[silk_dragon_zen]

She's wrong: doctors are sometimes willfully ignorant and frequently stupid (in the meaning I grew up with — “intellectually lazy”), but they are generally never intellectually disabled, and to use terms that imply that — *especially any variation on the r-word* — to describe their incompetence is needlessly cruel to actually intellectually disabled people.

[sinisterporpoise]

I screwed up in using the word in the title. Thanks for calling me out on it.

[sinisterporpoise]

I think I'm just a little frustrated in general right now. Being forced into a job search program in order to keep SNAP benefits has had unintended consequences. Every time I go out to meet its requirements, I end up getting frustrated and depressed. I'll have to watch myself more carefully in the future.

[silk_dragon_zen]

(Sorry, I didn't see this till now since you posted it as a reply to one of your own comments, rather than to my comment.)

I know what you mean: the more stress in my life, the less easily I can be mindful of the way I express myself in speech or in text conversations. I'm much better at it on blog posts or in comment sections, since I have more time to think, but I know it can be hard.

Thanks, btw, for changing the title.

[silk_dragon_zen]

It wasn't just the word in the title. It was agreeing with your friend's assessment that doctors are “f*k[r-word variation]”.