This is my great frustration. They are trained to detect “narcissistic” patients, and having seen some of those training videos, I now understand that their tr

This is my great frustration. They are trained to detect “narcissistic” patients, and having seen some of those training videos, I now understand that their treatment of patients who try and reference the literature is guided by that training. I have to pretend to be stupid and find weird “people hacks” because I can’t just come out and say, “here is a recent meta analysis in nejm that says x. Could you read that sometime in the next few weeks and see if it applies?” Often it’s not even recent research but common knowledge you can find in bio 101 textbooks or Wikipedia. But asking questions the wrong way, you can come across as “thinking you know more than the clinician” (you do!) so you have engage in bizarre kabuki theater and feign ignorance hoping they feel the urge to revisit their textbooks, or google it.