I suddenly had alopecia areata. If you don't want to Google it, there were coin-sized areas of my head spontaneously losing hair, starting with my beard.
My GP said "this is not a health problem, if you want a fuller beard use rogain". I was embarrassed enough to go home and try to tough it out.
Within 6 months the whole left side of my head was completely bare, except for splotchy outlines here and there. My right side had hair but it was spreading fast. I looked like a hyena. It was not a great experience.
Went to a dermatologist, got steroid shots, and my hair grew back in a month.
You get quotes for housework, apply to multiple jobs, test drive cars, but when it comes to health, we trust the first asshole with availability? Never again.
For a while I had a GP who did his med school in the Caribbean. He was fine. I knew he did it there.
During one exam he asked me where I did my grad school. I respond and reflexively ask him and his response was “Blah blah school of medicine in The Grenadines. But the guy who graduates last in his class there is still called ‘Doctor’”.
I would rather have the last in his class doctor from some Caribbean country that listens to his patients than the ego doctor at the top of his class at John’s Hopkins that doesn’t.
My GP said "this is not a health problem, if you want a fuller beard use rogain". I was embarrassed enough to go home and try to tough it out.
Within 6 months the whole left side of my head was completely bare, except for splotchy outlines here and there. My right side had hair but it was spreading fast. I looked like a hyena. It was not a great experience.
Went to a dermatologist, got steroid shots, and my hair grew back in a month.
You get quotes for housework, apply to multiple jobs, test drive cars, but when it comes to health, we trust the first asshole with availability? Never again.