I think you are correct, and that behavior is to the patients’ detriment. Personally, I worked myself into the ground trying to both advance my career and to m

I think you are correct, and that behavior is to the patients’ detriment. Personally, I worked myself into the ground trying to both advance my career and to manage increasingly alarming health issues. I would have benefitted from some “real talk” but that’s not baked into the contemporary western transactional model of medicine outside of those areas that routinely deal with terminal illness.