@JLeslie
See, the points you bring up, I see that as a failure of medical doctors and professionals to properly examine patients and bring up problems. PCOS has been around for a very long time. Hippocrates actually wrote about hairy women who seemed unable to bear children. It’s nothing new. It is still underdiagnosed because many professionals don’t take the symptoms seriously. They just file it under the category “lady problems”. That is the fault of the doctor.
Patients are responsible for reporting their symptoms and lifestyle habits accurately and truthfully to their caregivers. Patients should not be responsible for doing outside research on diagnoses and medications when they have little to no medical knowledge or training. The fact that this is so commonplace and even encouraged shows that we are failing. It is not a good thing.
The fact that we have so much misinformation and medical hysteria floating around is a sign that something is seriously wrong with our medical system. People need to have better access to doctors for preventive care, people need to trust doctors more, but doctors also need to be better trained. The number of bad doctors out there is abysmal.
I definitely hate how there is too much misinformation out there. Overall, I don’t think it has helped.
@Dutchess_III
I’ve seen lots of ads/hype about drugs like that. You wouldn’t believe the sort of crappy medications that come out and the tactics they use to get people to buy into them. People have no sense of prudency. Like you, I’m going “Uhm, why wouldn’t you want to get your blood checked once in a while?” I think everyone should have regular blood testing, intervals depending on what’s going on with them.
Yes, going to the doctor may not be fun but it is very necessary and needed, and in a better system, one shouldn’t be of the mindset “Gee, how can I get out of not getting my health checked up on?”.