On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:26:35 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 3:15 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:39:04 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/12/2013 10:56 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>>> Oddly, I'm appreciating this the second time around. I'm less
>>>>>> stressed and our doctor seems to bow to my (superior?) knowledge.
>>>> LOL - I always worry when I know more about it than the doctor.;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You worry because your doctor doesn't know enough or because you know
>>> too much?
>>
>> Maybe a little of both - but I haven't had that experience in a while,
>> myself.  Have a friend, though, who recently was dealing with some type
>> of benign tumors, and he /did/ know more than the doctor about them.
>>
>> Then again, he named them, too.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
> But then GPs can't be expected to be experts in everything. And we have
> the interest and the internet.
> I suppose it all depends on how the doctor takes the advice.

Well, yes.  In my friend's case, it wasn't a GP he was talking to - it 
was a specialist.

Jim

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