How good are you at heeding the advice of your doctor?

[DodgersGM]

So, you go to your regular doctor visit, and BOOM!, they drop the bomb on you: there's something you need to change in order to be healtier.

Maybe you need more exercise? Maybe you need to eat healtier? Maybe you need to lower your stress levels and engage in more relaxing, calming activities?

My question is this: hor good are you at taking your doctor's adivce and putting it into action? Are you usually successful? And you make those changes long-lasting, or do you usually revert back to your old behaviors?

[Levin]

If I need to take my doctor's advice, I'm already sick. And his advice won't actually help alleviate the generally chronically shoddy condition of my body anyway. He might be good for acute illness, trauma, bacterial infection, such like. Anything else, requires meditation/understanding of the psyche. Not really a doctor's realm. Please, let's get away from this notion that the doctor is a panacea. Most of them already have a big enough ego.

Personal responsibility...

Incidentally, I read an article today that the doctors are prescribing antibiotics for 51% when patients turn up with a cough or cold in the UK. Which is frankly shocking and disgusting. Not to mention reckless and dangerous.

[Hans222]

Well, I'm the type of guy who'd delay that doctor's visit but once I've got some advice I generally follow it :D
Oh and exercising would be no problem...
As long as he doesn't prohibit me to eat pasta... that's my favourite :D

[nert73]

I do that on my own. I don't need a doctor to tell me to do stuff because I do lots of research before I even call a doctor. I usually try to go with what the doctor tells me just because it's what they recommended but if I find something works better, I'll stick with that. The thing is, I RARELY go to the doctor for a sickness. I have other medical problems and by now (I've dealt with them for roughly a year) I know pretty well how to handle them. If I do happen to be sick, though, I try things at home before I consider involving a doctor.

[mooky06]

I do. I don't think i can take a chance when it comes to my health. I would want to be my healthiest. Listening to what the doctor has to say to give me advice or procedures i need to undertake so i can feel 100% sounds like something i can do, even if the cure is something very minor.

[mooky06]

Thanks Dodgers! For MH :)

[Bluemax]

Fairly good. I was hospitalized back in December. Doctor told me I had to make some changes in eating. I've done so. I've faithfully taken all the medications they've prescribed.

[Octavius]

Depends on the doctor. There's good doctors and bad doctors. I've had bad doctors before and blew off all his advice and I made the right choice. Listening to him would have screwed me up.

[BelleGirl21]

I avoid the doctor at all costs exactly for this scenario.

[vickiezalez]

I don't listen to their advice because... I don't really get sick :D

[lifes_curve_ball]

You mean doctor Google? Lol

[douride2]

I'm pretty good at following her advice.

[cl_517]

ahh sometimes I do listen, not all the time.

[nileve]

i ignore it to busy enjoying the day

[CourtJester]

As an aspiring physician... not very good haha.