Posted by alohashirt on March 6, 2005, at 19:32:46
In reply to How to not second guess your dr. when you DO, posted by Spriggy on March 6, 2005, at 12:35:59
Managing your doctor is like managing an insecure boss at work.
Everything needs to be their idea. It would be unrealistic and unhelpful to assume that assertive open conversation is always the right approach. Imagine being a pdoc - You're the kinfd of doctor that other doctors think isn't a real doctior and you work with illnesses that may or may not exist and teh treatments are medications that seem to work for reasons we don't understand or therapy that seems to be effective regardless of the truth of its underpinning theory. And the world assumes you're the Nutty Professor. I think you're smart to be thinking hard about this.Come up with a question whose only answer is the med that you are interested in testing:
"Are there any drugs related X that don't have effect Y?"
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