Deans' stroke musings: Are Neurologists Respected?

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Are Neurologists Respected?

From a student doctor forum, short answer - no.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=104073
I have gone to several information sessions about Neurology. Most of the neurologists say that the "know everything, do nothing" stereotype about neurology is no longer true. They say that there are a lot of treatments available now and are developing that make neurology a good field to go into.

On the other hand, I have never heard of a non-neurologist say anything good about neurology. I have a physician sibling and she flat out told me that she doesn't respect the neurologists that she works with. She says they don't know much. Some friends who shadowed physicians say that a lot of physicians dump patients to neurology when they can't do anything with them.

So my question is: Has neurology changed for the better? Are there real procedures available in neurology? I am not interested at all in treating headaches or doing sleep related things. Secondly, are neurologists respect anywhere? Granted, my sample is small (2 people) but I have not heard any good things.

Answers at link.

My opinion, absolutely not, they are naked emperors.