You’d agree that an important part of patient care is listening to the patients, correct? In my personal experience, NPs tend to do so. Oftentimes I’m coming i

You’d agree that an important part of patient care is listening to the patients, correct? In my personal experience, NPs tend to do so. Oftentimes I’m coming in for fairly obvious medical reasons and it’s a painless visit. With doctors, it’s been a crapshoot for me. They adhere to whatever they learned years ago with complete inflexibility. I still recall my high school dermatologist insisting that diet doesn’t affect acne and even showing me some stupid pamphlet to support her argument despite my insistence that it does from anecdotal evidence. Lo and behold it turns out she’s wrong! I doubt she cares since that’s not what she learned 15 years ago in school. Simply put, most doctors don’t give a shit if you don’t fit the general case. If a side effect is not on the label, surely you’re imagining it and we can set up some therapy sessions. It’s bewildering to say the least and very patronizing. Imagine you had a tech lead try and “fix” any bugs you’re encountering without ever bothering to read the code or see what your approach so far has been. They just spitball some suggestions from what they’ve seen before. That’s how it feels.