>>98332011>>98332117To be fair sometimes it really is that difficult to be sure of whatever Mooms is having at the moment. It's more that certain symptoms and conditions are just really hard to pin down and baffle healthcare professionals rather than a lack of caring. People will feel frustrated by this, so will complain that "doctors don't care," but it's more "we've honestly got nothing else we can do."
All the CT scans, endoscopy procedures, blood draws, medications, past MD notes can be done, but there may still just not be a cure for the problem or a cause found.
I've seen it in plenty of rounds where there's certain hospital cases where there's long-term patients that just don't make sense. You've tried every medication, you've pulled all the labs you can, you've referred them to every specialist under the sun, and it's just now symptomatic treatment because nobody between ID, Neuro, Rheumatology, Pharmacy, etc. can pinpoint how in the world a fully healthy, athletic adult suddenly just became emaciated and on a breathing tube with no rationale cause.
A chronic persistent cough is annoying because I can imagine doctors have trialed all kinds of cough suppressants, have likely ordered an endoscopy to rule out some kind of GERD, peeked at some blood lab levels to see anything out of the norm, but at a certain point, if everything's been tried+ruled out, it's really hard to say what would be causing it. Frustrating for Mumei, but equally as frustrating for any healthcare professional because there's nothing more frustrating than just not being able to help a person, corrupt doctors and insurance companies not paying what they should notwithstanding.
source: overworked physician who switched jobs two years ago
