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Three Types of Doctors, Which is Best?
Type I, informally chats with people and suggests to them what to eat, what not to eat, what to drink, what not to drink, how to prepare foods, how to eat and drink, how much, how to go through a day, even before people are sick.
Patient: What?! He is a doctor?! I never knew he was a doctor. I always thought he was just a layman like me, sometimes telling me not to drink, not to burn midnight oil, not to indulge in sex, common things like that.
Type II, knows how to help people when symptoms are still small and stop the diseases from progressing.
Patient: He is a good doctor. When I felt bloated and had pain in right rib-cage area, he gave me something to drink and something to take and my pain was gone, so were all my discomforts.
Type III, knows all about liver transplant, local ablation, alcohol injection, radiofrequency, TACE, tamoxifen, octreotide, antiandrogens, hepatic artery, ligation/embolization, drug-eluting beads, radiolabelled yttrium glass beads, radiolabelled lipiodol, immunotherapy, etc. etc.
Patient: Oh, boy! My doctor knows everything about everything! He even knows how to open me up, give me a brand new liver, and suture me up again! Even though the transplantation gave me 1 more year to live and made my family and all my relatives broke, he must be the best doctor!
What do you think? Who is the best doctor?
Patient: What?! He is a doctor?! I never knew he was a doctor. I always thought he was just a layman like me, sometimes telling me not to drink, not to burn midnight oil, not to indulge in sex, common things like that.
Type II, knows how to help people when symptoms are still small and stop the diseases from progressing.
Patient: He is a good doctor. When I felt bloated and had pain in right rib-cage area, he gave me something to drink and something to take and my pain was gone, so were all my discomforts.
Type III, knows all about liver transplant, local ablation, alcohol injection, radiofrequency, TACE, tamoxifen, octreotide, antiandrogens, hepatic artery, ligation/embolization, drug-eluting beads, radiolabelled yttrium glass beads, radiolabelled lipiodol, immunotherapy, etc. etc.
Patient: Oh, boy! My doctor knows everything about everything! He even knows how to open me up, give me a brand new liver, and suture me up again! Even though the transplantation gave me 1 more year to live and made my family and all my relatives broke, he must be the best doctor!
What do you think? Who is the best doctor?
Why in reality, type III doctors are all important and type I doctors are hardly known? Because with the former, a lot of money exchange hands, certainly to the destructive misery of patients and their families.
Doctor #1: You and I are on our first date. Where do we go and how do we get there?
--Depends.
Doctor #2: You're meeting my mother for the first time and are surprised by her enormous dowager's hump and alarmingly inflamed goiter. How do you react?
--Depends.
Doctor #3: Write a haiku about me that uses the words "radiolabelled lipiodol".
--Where is the question?
Seriously though, why do you ask?
--Both patients and doctors are more often than not in a reactive mode and follow the progression of the disease: elevated ALT/AST and HBV-DNA? start antivirals; cirrhosis? spleen removal; elevated portal vein pressure? TIPS; all failed? liver transplantation. With knowledge and discipline maybe nothing needs to become so multi-syllable and Latin-Greek based. You just lead a normal life with your natural life span.
--Depends.
Doctor #2: You're meeting my mother for the first time and are surprised by her enormous dowager's hump and alarmingly inflamed goiter. How do you react?
--Depends.
Doctor #3: Write a haiku about me that uses the words "radiolabelled lipiodol".
--Where is the question?
Seriously though, why do you ask?
--Both patients and doctors are more often than not in a reactive mode and follow the progression of the disease: elevated ALT/AST and HBV-DNA? start antivirals; cirrhosis? spleen removal; elevated portal vein pressure? TIPS; all failed? liver transplantation. With knowledge and discipline maybe nothing needs to become so multi-syllable and Latin-Greek based. You just lead a normal life with your natural life span.
Can I ask them each a question first?
Doctor #1: You and I are on our first date. Where do we go and how do we get there?
Doctor #2: You're meeting my mother for the first time and are surprised by her enormous dowager's hump and alarmingly inflamed goiter. How do you react?
Doctor #3: Write a haiku about me that uses the words "radiolabelled lipiodol".
Seriously though, why do you ask?
Doctor #1: You and I are on our first date. Where do we go and how do we get there?
Doctor #2: You're meeting my mother for the first time and are surprised by her enormous dowager's hump and alarmingly inflamed goiter. How do you react?
Doctor #3: Write a haiku about me that uses the words "radiolabelled lipiodol".
Seriously though, why do you ask?
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