Dealing with doctors
Some of Cutler's posts relating to doctors and why he is blunt to parents and doctors. He is particularly critical of many DAN! practises because they are unsafe.
Partly I am purposefully bombastic and inflammatory for the simple reason that I have learned over the years that most people who are told to do something harmful by their doctor will in fact do it to themselves or their child no matter how much I yak at them if I restrict myself to reasoned analysis and polite discussion. (Source: long post from Cutler)
Unfortunately being really bombastic is pretty emotionally painful for many doctors, especially those who still have some of that fervent belief in what they do left inside. But ultimately I am concerned about the people who need help, so I continue it.Unfortunately being really bombastic is pretty emotionally painful for many doctors, especially those who still have some of that fervent belief in what they do left inside. But ultimately I am concerned about the people who need help, so I continue it. (Source: Cutler)
From the end of a long and helpful post on cold-calling doctors and dealing with insurance companies:
Basically, the way our current un-health care system is set up you either have to pay a looooooot of money to some alternative doctor to figure out how your kid needs to be treated and wheedle the doctor into it, or you have to spend a lot of time and aggravation working with some insurance plan doctor to figure out how your kid needs to be treated and wheedle the doctor into it, or you have to figure it out yourself, circumvent the obstacles of it being difficult to get tests and Rx meds, and then just do it.
And from a post on being blunt with parents:
Frankly I really soft pedal this to avoid creating unnecessary emotional distress among parents who let a bunch of alternative doctors hurt their kid even more after the mainstream doctors turned them autistic, but a lot of the interventions used are NOT benign, are NOT safe, and not only can but often do lead to serious long term or permanent worsening. The most likely cause of a child never getting well is a parent who gullibly accepts everything the alternative community says might help and tries a lot of it.