Comments on: Did The Patient Fail The Treatment Or Did We Fail The Patient? http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2010/01/did-the-patient-fail-the-treatment-or-did-we-fail-the-patient/ Adventures of a superhero on his journey through chronic pain and debilitating inflammation Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Marilu Gonzalez http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2010/01/did-the-patient-fail-the-treatment-or-did-we-fail-the-patient/#comment-2228 Marilu Gonzalez Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:59:21 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=9291#comment-2228 I take care of my husband of 14 yrs. He was diagnosed w/ RA 2 yrs. ago. and so far nothing is working to improve his struggles w/ this illness. He feels it's his fault. Which of course I keep telling him it's not. Sometimes he wants to give up and not take anything at all! I wish the doctors and the researcher would get on the same page and find something now!! I take care of my husband of 14 yrs. He was diagnosed w/ RA 2 yrs. ago. and so far nothing is working to improve his struggles w/ this illness. He feels it’s his fault. Which of course I keep telling him it’s not. Sometimes he wants to give up and not take anything at all! I wish the doctors and the researcher would get on the same page and find something now!!

]]> By: Wren http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2010/01/did-the-patient-fail-the-treatment-or-did-we-fail-the-patient/#comment-2227 Wren Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:07:11 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=9291#comment-2227 This terminology has irritated me for years. I have RA. I take the drugs they tell me to take because they tell me the drugs might help me. The drugs don't perform as hoped. And so I'VE failed the drug. Not the other way around. That just frosts me. I'd sure like to see this sort of medical rhetoric changed to reflect the truth. Imperfect scientists develop imperfect drugs for imperfect people with imperfect ailments. When the imperfect drug doesn't perform as planned, the blame should not be placed on the imperfect patient. It's not the patient's fault, nor the drug's, nor the scientist's. It just didn't work. So we move on. Patients with chronic illnesses don't need this petty drubbing on top of everything else. Dang. This terminology has irritated me for years. I have RA. I take the drugs they tell me to take because they tell me the drugs might help me. The drugs don’t perform as hoped.

And so I’VE failed the drug. Not the other way around. That just frosts me.

I’d sure like to see this sort of medical rhetoric changed to reflect the truth. Imperfect scientists develop imperfect drugs for imperfect people with imperfect ailments. When the imperfect drug doesn’t perform as planned, the blame should not be placed on the imperfect patient. It’s not the patient’s fault, nor the drug’s, nor the scientist’s. It just didn’t work. So we move on.

Patients with chronic illnesses don’t need this petty drubbing on top of everything else. Dang.

]]> By: WarmSocks http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/2010/01/did-the-patient-fail-the-treatment-or-did-we-fail-the-patient/#comment-2225 WarmSocks Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:39:01 +0000 http://www.rheumatoidarthritisguy.com/?p=9291#comment-2225 Awesome response! Awesome response!

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