Comments by "Ellie" (@ellie698) on "Dr Cohen on family medicine" video.

  1. 36:00 gender non conformity is definitely being over medicalised now. Let kids just be kids, if a little boy likes pink and wants to play with dolls let him, it doesn't mean he was born in the wrong body, likewise with little girls who don't like dresses and like playing with trucks. Let kids play how they want and discover what they like, let them develop and change throughout their childhood without labelling them and locking them into an identity that will almost certainly evolve and change from where it is right now. We're in danger of damaging a lot of lives by rigidly categorising them into narrow boxes while they're young. What happened to just letting kids experiment with who they might be and letting them evolve through time. Why the rush to label them as one thing or the other?
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  2. As a patient with Multiple Sclerosis, I would love to feel that I'm collaborating with my consultant and my MS nurse. Instead I feel like an inconvenience to be dealt with as quickly as possible. I feel completely hopeless about my future.
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  3. I do wish all doctors, all people were as aware of all the factors involved in dealing with individuals. What a wonderfully intelligent human being
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  4. hear hear, in my experience as a multiple sclerosis patient, it isn't. I would love to feel that I'm collaborating with my consultant and my MS nurse. Instead I feel like an inconvenience to be dealt with as quickly as possible.
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  5. I'm reading a very thought provoking book at the moment by a doctor called Atul Gawande about the medicalisation of old age and dying and how all the medical interventions in the latter stages of life are often, on balance, not in the best interests of the welfare of the patient. Doctors may often be artificially prolonging the length of someone's life, at the expense of the quality of their life. It's an important question we all need to face and a debate see need to have. Too often it seems, doctors lose sight of what's important to us all, human warmth and connection when we're dying is more important than a few more days of life. Sometimes we need to know when it's appropriate to let someone go, and just help that process to be as peaceful, calm and comfortable as it can be. The book is called Being Mortal.
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