What Ever Happened to the
Old Fashioned Country Doctor?

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ow, I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has posed this question. Come on admit it you have been asking yourself the same question for years now, right? You have been longing to find that one doctor that reminds you of the one we grew up watching on shows like "Little House on the Prairie" or even "Doctor Quinn Medicine Women", for the ones who aren't old enough to remember "Little House on the Prairie", right?

Correct me if you think that I'm wrong, but it seems like the doctors of the early 21st century just don't seem to listen to or even hear what the patients are telling them. All they seem to go by anymore is the scientific fact that is put in front them, at least most of the doctors seem to anyway. If they're not going by the facts that are placed in front of them they are assuming because of the family history or should I say what they assume is the correct medical family history for you.

Maybe I was spoiled as a child growing up in the early 80's. (Yes you read that that right I said the early 1980's.) Up until about the time I turned 12 or 13 I went to a doctor who reminded of the one in "Little House on the Prairie". He actually listened to what the patient was saying. Sadly it seems that all the doctors who were, as I like to call them 'Old fashioned Country Doctors', have either retired or passed away. So we are stuck in this endless cycle of Doctor hopping trying to find the one who will treat us like a human and not a statistic.

I have something to say to the doctors who treat their patients like some sort of number that is either in stat books or in their paycheck; 'Not everyone can fit into the nice neat numbers that science presents you with, everyone is different and should be treated as such.'

Maybe the med schools should start teaching the new doctors a course on how to treat the human and not the number. Just a thought, because I don't know about you but I want to know 'What Ever Happened to the Old Fashioned Country Doctor?' You know the ones that treated the human, because that was what they were trained to do.

I will leave you with this one last question, Would we be better off as humans if the doctors of the 21st century still had the 19th century doctors way of thinking?