[artplumber]

Originally posted by Dennis Kalma
....So when it directly affects my life, and there is available research that I can check out, I think that I am just being prudent to challenge the MD and make him defend his position....

Most MD's I have met are pretty narrow minded, and whilst there are many good ones, the majority come across as actually believing they are smarter than all their patients and have nothing to learn from them.

Happens every day by everyone who is an armchair internet MD. Have you considered having your client/customers all challenge you with the same "issues" with your work? Let's see, that's 10-20 people every half day in the office. Plus the 10 in the hospital. You'd be pretty tired of hearing it too.

....It is just like when the electrician that wired my house on the last renovation tried to do some stuff that was borderline (within code, but not within the planned use for the area), I felt very free to update his understanding and work with him to change it, with a much better result.

Nobody knows as much as Dennis about anything?

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Take the example of a friend of mine with a brain tumour. She was diagnosed, ....

And I'll regale you with stories of people going to various clinics in this country and throughout the world seeking a "different option", only to return with worse (or now untreatable) disease.

Or, repeated heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, lost limbs.....

....I will definitely listen to him, ...limits to what I can and will do....after all it is MY body.

How'd I know that phrase would come up? Never heard that before either.