> Doctors don't respond well to randomly dropping theories on them.
Because they are liabilities. If he follows along with your theory and you get worse, he doesn't get to claim he was following accepted medical practice.
Plenty of smart guys turn into the doctor's worst enemies after things start going wrong. Wanna know what arguments they use in court against doctors who show patients this sort of respect?
> I couldn't possibly have known
> He is a doctor and I'm just a patient
> My judgement was impaired due to my sickness
If patients want to start dropping theories on doctors, they should be ready to share in the responsibility for the outcome. Courts have demonstrated that the vast majority of people are not ready to accept that responsibility.
> Most of the people a doctor gets either almost can't read or think they have all the diagnosis from "the internet".
Well said. Many of my patients are illiterate. Imagine how hard it is to obtain informed consent. Combine that with internet diagnosis and it's a shit show. I have people asking me about the benefits of some YouTube charlatan's special himalayan salts on a daily basis. And that's when they're not already using those things and dismissing medicine as a corporate conspiracy to keep them sick and perpeptually consuming drugs.
I have no problem with people who googled things, understood those things and who want my professional opinion on the matter. It only becomes a problem for me once they start trying to determine what the treatment is going to be. It's my name, signature and license on the prescription. The only options available to the patient are the ones I'm willing to write on that paper.