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Ah, you think you know better than doctors. Many people think this. Many have bad outcomes with nobody to blame but themselves.
I don’t care if you use cannabis, heck I can legally prescribe you some if you need it. Doctors are not law enforcement. I don’t bat an eye if you tell em you use cocaine, I’ll still give you morphine after surgery but I need to know you used cocaine so I can avoid beta blockers. You’re paranoid we’re judging you but you’re wrong. You’re not as rare as you think. We know you’re in pain regardless of your drug use and treat you anyway.
Many idiots who died in hospital thought that too, which is why we make you sign consent forms so that your family can no longer sue us for your stupid mistake.
It’s like you have no idea how doctors work and have an outdated idea of them. Your loss.
You misunderstand me. I don't think I know better than doctors. Far from it. What I want from a doctor is information and informed choice, not a gatekeeper who makes decisions for me. As a group, physicians have been slow to adopt the patient-centered informed choice mentality that, for example, nurse practitioners and midwives have more thoroughly adopted.
The fact that you've doubled down here on calling patients idiots for being somewhat distrustful of the typical arrogant physician attitude confirms what I'm saying.