# What's the worst medical advice you've ever heard? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2016, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-medical-advice-youve-ever-heard/768043 "2016-10-09T10:51:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-medical-advice-youve-ever-heard/768043/18 "2016-10-10T05:05:44Z")
Yes, “Go to a doctor” was in many cases very bad advice, and in most cases, uselss advice. Meanwhile, I have recovered perfectly from every single one of the complaints I’ve ever had for which I did not go to a doctor. Worst case, a doctor over-aggressively put me on blood pressure medication, resulting in a sudden drop in blood pressure, which coupled with my cup-to-disc ratio, triggered sudden and irreversible blindness in one eye. Same doctor put me on cyanocobalamin for vitamin B-12 deficiency, which had no effect, and my present doctor calls it a placebo. I quit going to doctors for kidney stones, because all they did was a series of annoying tests I was in no mood for to verify that they were kidney stones, then tell me to wait for them to pass. For Hep-A, go home and get plenty of rest, you’ll recover. I did. For Retinitis Pigmentosa, doctors advive was apply for disbility, you’ll get worse and be blind forever. Sciatica, I was referred to a pain specialist, he wanted to give me a steroid shot and do surgery if that didn’t work. I said let’s try PT, he said OK, and with PT it went away and never came back. Othrewise, I look up antibiotics on internet for the condition I have, but pharmacies won’t give them to me until I go and let a doctor defraud Medicare and give me a script. I won’t go to a doctor unless I absolutely have to (not every time somebody says “Go see a doctor”), and that policy has worked 100% of the time for 77 years. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-medical-advice-youve-ever-heard/768043)._