I believe it is always important to ask questions. But I also think that it is both arrogant and ignorant to think that by typing the name of your treatment options into google you are qualified to enter into a debate with someone who has had at least 5 years of medical training. Informed consent can be taken so far, with the weighing up of risks that you are more or less willing to take, but in the end you are 5 years of training lesser than the doctor you are dealing with. You will not find a doctor who will purposefully treat you ineffectually. Nor is it easy to find one who make careless and dangerous mistakes regularly.
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I believe it is always important to ask questions. But I also think that it is both arrogant and ignorant to think that by typing the name of your treatment options into google you are qualified to enter into a debate with someone who has had at least 5 years of medical training. Informed consent can be taken so far, with the weighing up of risks that you are more or less willing to take, but in the end you are 5 years of training lesser than the doctor you are dealing with. You will not find a doctor who will purposefully treat you ineffectually. Nor is it easy to find one who make careless and dangerous mistakes regularly.
September 5, 2009 - 12:50amThis Comment
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