A case of refractory urethritis with repeated doctor shopping

INTRODUCTION: In the field of sexually transmitted diseases, resistance and diversification of causative organisms are becoming a problem. We report a case in which the course of the disease was complicated by doctor shopping. CASE PRESENTATION: A man in his 40s visited his local doctor for painful...

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Autores principales: Maeda, Koki, Shigemura, Katsumi, Yang, Yong‐Ming, Nakano, Yuzo, Arakawa, Soichi, Fujisawa, Masato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35252799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12415
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author Maeda, Koki
Shigemura, Katsumi
Yang, Yong‐Ming
Nakano, Yuzo
Arakawa, Soichi
Fujisawa, Masato
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Yang, Yong‐Ming
Nakano, Yuzo
Arakawa, Soichi
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description INTRODUCTION: In the field of sexually transmitted diseases, resistance and diversification of causative organisms are becoming a problem. We report a case in which the course of the disease was complicated by doctor shopping. CASE PRESENTATION: A man in his 40s visited his local doctor for painful urination and cloudy urine. Due to the lack of improvement in symptoms after antibiotic treatment, he self‐selected to visit six hospitals in just five months. He visited our clinic only a few times and then stopped coming. CONCLUSION: Doctor shopping, as well as self‐diagnosis and self‐treatment, will continue to increase. Patient education is important, but medical professionals also need to be aware of the possibility of doctor shopping when treating patients.
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spelling pubmed-88880202022-03-04 A case of refractory urethritis with repeated doctor shopping Maeda, Koki Shigemura, Katsumi Yang, Yong‐Ming Nakano, Yuzo Arakawa, Soichi Fujisawa, Masato IJU Case Rep Case Reports INTRODUCTION: In the field of sexually transmitted diseases, resistance and diversification of causative organisms are becoming a problem. We report a case in which the course of the disease was complicated by doctor shopping. CASE PRESENTATION: A man in his 40s visited his local doctor for painful urination and cloudy urine. Due to the lack of improvement in symptoms after antibiotic treatment, he self‐selected to visit six hospitals in just five months. He visited our clinic only a few times and then stopped coming. CONCLUSION: Doctor shopping, as well as self‐diagnosis and self‐treatment, will continue to increase. Patient education is important, but medical professionals also need to be aware of the possibility of doctor shopping when treating patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8888020/ /pubmed/35252799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12415 Text en © 2022 The Authors. IJU Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of the Japanese Urological Association https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nakano, Yuzo
Arakawa, Soichi
Fujisawa, Masato
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35252799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iju5.12415
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