Thank you for outlining the basics of how we can ask questions of our doctors without feeling (or sounding) like we are saying "I don't trust you to know what y

Thank you for outlining the basics of how we can ask questions of our doctors without feeling (or sounding) like we are saying "I don't trust you to know what you're doing". As you point out, often the doctors DO have reasons, but sometimes they might do it because if they don't, other patients will complain that the doctor "didn't do anything". When we're sick or worried, it's easy to forget to ask these questions. I don't even manage to ask them of my car mechanic.