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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PS: There's a difference between "asking questions" in a polite and respectful way, and asking them in a way that comes with insults, rude challenges, and an insistence to do excessive work for free when it isn't medically indicated. [/quote]

Challenging a doctor is okay. They are not gods, and we are the ones who will die if they are wrong. [/quote]

Of course it’s ok, as in it’s legal and it’s within your right. As you say, it’s your body, and you can challenge the doctor every step of the way as they try to help your body.  But that’s exhausting for your doctor to be antagonized at literally every turn and while you might think, “who cares?”, your doctor is going to dismiss you from the practice or, as PP said, start ordering a zillion tests and say “take your pick, do any of these that you’d like” even though that’s against their better medical judgment. If you don’t trust their medical judgment, why not just move on to someone else??[/quote]

There can be a back and forth. A conversation. That does not mean you don’t trust your doctor, rather you want to be sure you agree with what she is recommending. [/quote]

Oh absolutely and I encourage that. The patient should always understand , to the best of their ability at least, why I am ordering or not ordering a test for example. But having a conversation to make sure my patient understands my reasoning is different than “I read 84 articles about 19 different possible differential diagnoses for my stomach pain and I am going to aggressively quiz you on the difference between an ultrasound and an MRI for each of these diagnoses and ONLY when I am fully satisfied will I agree to get the ultrasound.  But then I’m going to call you at 10pm to discuss it in detail as soon as it pops up in my patient portal”. I can’t do that. You need a private doctor. [/quote]

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