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wnylib

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7. Recommendations don't always work well,
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 08:10 AM
Jul 2021

either. While in college, a campus nurse recommended a doctor to me for since I didn't have a regular one. He diagnosed my problem, but failed to treat it correctly. Every time I called his office to say that I was not improving, he said it took time for the medication to work. This is true for the condition, but he was also supposed to monitor it with blood tests at regular intervals, which I didn't know and he didn't do, to adjust dosage and brand if necessary.

So several months later, I was in such bad shape that I had to withdraw from classes. I spoke to someone else familiar with my condition who said I should switch doctors. I did, and both the brand and dose had to be changed. Meantime, the first doctor lost his license to practice in the state due to malpractice in other cases.

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