Anyone Listen To You Tube Doctors?

[Axel Slingerland]

If videos are available on YouTube from Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and other teaching medical facilities, that's fine. Sometimes, before a procedure is prescribed for you, you can see how it is performed. Certainly, these places are the real deal.

I agree with you there. My old Neuro up in Eureka told me to not waste my time anywhere else. Unless you just have a thing for Ducks.


One night I woke up at 5:00a and Cindy was watching Brain Surgery.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I watched a hip replacement before I had mine done. Very interesting although not for everyone.
It helps if you have some medical knowledge to watch out for the quacks.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Major medical facilities such as MD Anderson, the Mayo Clinic, etc. have Youtube channels with tons of excellent information. I was able to see all of my cancer doctors in videos before I met them in person. There are also excellent physical therapy videos from those same hospitals, which I used when doing range-of-motion exercise after surgery.

So some Youtube videos are absolutely valuable, though I never bother with any of the "nutrition experts" and that stuff.

Our local hospital is called St Agony. It is heavily into medical industrial complex and not the caring place it was under the nuns who used to run it. I could tell you stories! But so many medical facilities are popping up. I am waiting for the perfect osteopath or concierge doctor.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I was just reading in the news that India has arrested a company that has given out fake documents to over 100,000 people , falsely claiming that they are doctors, engineers, and other professions where you have to go to college and get a degree.
I have mentioned before (and I think that @Bobby Cole has, too) that we both believe that our Hindee doctor does not really know much about medicine, and he relies on his nurse practitioners for just about everything.

When we go in twice a year for the Medicare visit and lab work, he just asks a few questions and types answers into the computer, and does not really do anything that a non-doctor could not do. Everything else is done by his nurses. When i looked up his information online, he did get his doctor certification in India, but then went to college here in Alabama, so probably worked as an intern at the college.

We were going to go back to our other doctor when we changed from Devoted health back to Humana, but now we are changing back to Devoted, and our doctor that we really liked did not accept Devoted Insurance before. I will check to see if they accept it now, but if not, then we are going to look for a different doctor that takes our insurance.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I was just reading in the news that India has arrested a company that has given out fake documents to over 100,000 people , falsely claiming that they are doctors, engineers, and other professions where you have to go to college and get a degree.
I have mentioned before (and I think that @Bobby Cole has, too) that we both believe that our Hindee doctor does not really know much about medicine, and he relies on his nurse practitioners for just about everything.

When we go in twice a year for the Medicare visit and lab work, he just asks a few questions and types answers into the computer, and does not really do anything that a non-doctor could not do. Everything else is done by his nurses. When i looked up his information online, he did get his doctor certification in India, but then went to college here in Alabama, so probably worked as an intern at the college.

We were going to go back to our other doctor when we changed from Devoted health back to Humana, but now we are changing back to Devoted, and our doctor that we really liked did not accept Devoted Insurance before. I will check to see if they accept it now, but if not, then we are going to look for a different doctor that takes our insurance.

Yvonne, I had the opposite happen. I was in er with pancreatitis, hurting worse than I remember ever hurting.
An American Jewish doctor named Dr,Frank ask why I waited, I told him Jake just changed jobs, no insurance. He said instantly, I can't treat you then.
A Dr. from Indian overheard him, Dr. Pyisena and told nurse to take me to a room , by then I went into a coma and they called in preacher for my last right's, was in coma for 12 days.
He was a wonderful doctor throughout my illness.
I do understand this is not how it usually goes and as you know I'm always complaining about illegals and special treatment of educational visa's.
Nothing is what it used to be now.
Our youth is feeling the brunt of our negligence. Many are on drugs, depressed, suicidal, etc.
A couple days ago my 3nd oldest granddaughter in her mid 30s was drugged up and walking around on interstate over pass. She climbed over the rails but decided not to jump down into the traffic below.
She needs to be institutionalized or put in prison.
Her mom and I are hoping she stays in jail for her own good.
We had 13 grands 2 have passed, one 'a gamer' from suicide at 26, one crib death as newborn.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

It is not every foreign doctor who is ignorant of medicine or has not had proper schooling, for sure, @Marie Mallory . Pretty much, I thought that people from other countries who went to college there for some profession, also had to go through schools here in the US before they could be certified.
My grandmother was a nurse in Germany, but it didn’t qualify her when she immigrated, and the same thing happened with my mother-in-law who came over after WW2 when she got married to an American soldier. She was a nurse in England, and would have done fine here, too, but since she had not been to nursing school here, she had to just work as a nurse’s aid.

We have had other doctors who were not from the US, and they were good doctors, but this Allada guy does not appear to be very knowledgeable, at least from what we can see.
When Bobby was having pain in his back and hip and could barely walk, the doctor told him to look for a more comfortable cushion to sit on, end of story.
But, my point was, we should be verifying these people who come here with the H1b visa, before we just accept their documents, since some of them are probably fakes that they paid to get.

 

[Marie Mallory]

It is not every foreign doctor who is ignorant of medicine or has not had proper schooling, for sure, @Marie Mallory . Pretty much, I thought that people from other countries who went to college there for some profession, also had to go through schools here in the US before they could be certified.
My grandmother was a nurse in Germany, but it didn’t qualify her when she immigrated, and the same thing happened with my mother-in-law who came over after WW2 when she got married to an American soldier. She was a nurse in England, and would have done fine here, too, but since she had not been to nursing school here, she had to just work as a nurse’s aid.

We have had other doctors who were not from the US, and they were good doctors, but this Allada guy does not appear to be very knowledgeable, at least from what we can see.
When Bobby was having pain in his back and hip and could barely walk, the doctor told him to look for a more comfortable cushion to sit on, end of story.
But, my point was, we should be verifying these people who come here with the H1b visa, before we just accept their documents, since some of them are probably fakes that they paid to get.

I know and I agree totally, my point was that it seems the whole medical field is not the same now and I also think that one of the reasons is the problem with undocumented lowering the wages of both blue color and professionals.
Add to this the DEI and minorities who are being pushed through no matter their grades.
I saw this here at the UF years ago. Some couldn't even read!

 

[Beth Gallagher]

There are so many foreign doctors in the US now; I'm sure there would be a huge doctor shortage without them. My original oncologist was Japanese and my current ophthalmologist is Indian American. His name is so hard to pronounce that people call him "Dr. P." (Puthenparamenbil).

I believe there are many doctors who have no business being doctors no matter what their nationality. I guess that's true of most professions, though.

I have also noticed the rise in Nurse Practitioners/Physician Assistants handling general practice medicine. My current GP is a NP. Before her, I had another female PA who found my breast cancer (and saved my life.) So there are many talented people in the profession, and many duds as well.

 

[Marie Miller]

I think our perception of “caring” and “knowledgeable” changes over the course of our lifespan. I have always been very no fluff and nonsense including when dealing with medical providers. I tell you what hurts and you give me your professional opinion based on that conversation, your examination and research. I may negotiate treatment or not. Done. My PCP is an awesome PA. Down to earth, cares about her patients and knows her limitations. But she will go to bat for her patients. And not an eyesore either.

There is no reciprocity for medical licenses. Curriculum has to be made up to meet US academic and State licensing requirements.