The Doctor is Not Always Right Push Back and Take Back Your Life

A woman was sitting on her couch watching television when she suddenly felt as though she was having a stroke on her left side. 

She went to the doctor and the doctor told her it was just stress and sent her home.

Suffering numbness and tingling down the left side of her body at home in Toronto, Stacey Yepes went to doctors suspecting she had suffered a stroke.

After returning home it happened again. She returned to the doctor with the same result. 

Finally while driving her car it happened one more time so she took out her cell phone and recorded what was happening in a video. 

Check it out:


She then went to a different doctor who did a CAT scan and responded with yes ma'am you are indeed having a mini stroke. They then treated her for that and sent her home. 

I added the video to this blog post to help you recognize a potential stroke.

She's going to be okay. But it's because of her own quick thinking. 

Doctors. can be wrong. Doctors are people too. 

They have stress and a lot on their plates just like the rest of us.

It's important that you're aware of that because your whole life depends on it.

Personal experience:

A few years ago my husband was having trouble with his foot. There was nerve damage of some sort going on.  He went to the doctor and the doctor said there was nothing wrong with it and that it was stress. 

The doctor sent Bill home. But the problem persisted. 

Five visits later, the doctor sent Bill to see a Neurologist who took want to look at his foot and said "I know exactly what this is.” Then he gave him a prescription which solved the problem and that was that. 

The thing is, Bill could not have gone to the Neurologist without a referral from the first doctor.

Speak Up - Stand up for yourself!

In the book “Crucial Confrontations” the writers tell the story of a man who entered the hospital for a simple earache and walked out, the puzzled owner of a brand-new vasectomy. 

If you wonder how this could have happened, It wasn't a typographical error. 

Here’s the thing, according to the doctor, the patient was “wide awake as medical professionals prepared him for the surgery." 

That included shaving him in a place that was a whole torso away from his infected ear. And yet he said nothing. 

I can’t figure out why he didn't ask what was going on,” the doctor exclaimed. The man deferred to the doctors.  He had learned not to question authority from a very young age and still adhered to that philosophy.

So speak up, question people in positions of authority, stand up for your rights or you could pay a unexpectedly heavy or even fatal price.

Here is a study from the writers of Crucial Confrontations and the folks at VitalSmarts regarding the healthcare effects of silence.  www.SilenceKills.com


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