How To Be a "Good" Patient

Here’s how to be a “GOOD PATIENT”:

• Contract an acute illness.
• Go see your doctor.
• Get diagnosed.
• Take your meds.
• Get better.
• Thank your brilliant doctor.

Now, here’s how to be a “DIFFICULT PATIENT”:

• Contract a chronic, progressive illness.
• Go see your doctor.
• Take your meds.
• Get diagnosed with something different. Many, many times.
• Take your new meds.
• Keep going back, because symptoms keep getting worse.
• Get more tests.
• Take different meds.
• Get referrals to specialists. Many, many times.
• Get more tests and more meds and more procedures.
• Keep going back.

You get the picture.

© 2011 Carolyn Thomas  www.myheartsisters.org

See the original article and more at Heart Sisters.