> I get that they needed to exclude an obvious potential cause and couldn't trust the patient to give an honest answer I disagree with this resigned acceptance

> I get that they needed to exclude an obvious potential cause and couldn't trust the patient to give an honest answer I disagree with this resigned acceptance to medical paternalism. The basic situation is that you are the patient, and all care should be per your direction. The doctors' responsibility is to treat you based on what you've told them. If you're actually lying, the responsibility for misdiagnosis rests entirely on you. Doctors hedging against a patient lying should only ever be considered within this larger backdrop. For example independent of the nonconsensual sample and testing, it was severely unethical for them to have delayed your care by several days while indulging their own curiosity.