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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Dangerous, Nonproductive Assumptions of Some Critics On the Net
Message-ID: <879@burl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:46:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:46:09 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Sep-85 08:31:14 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Keywords: A personal experience & value to the critic of "benefit of the doubt".
Summary: 

In article <2176@ukma.UUCP> wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) writes:
>I had greatly underestimated the knowledge and experience of my peers!
>I'll never forget the blank, polite looks I received at the end of my
>first presentation to the medical staff.  They knew all about it.
>They just were not doing it.  From that moment on I knew it was a lot
>safer to assume that the other person was MORE capable that s/he was
>rather than less.

How can you imply that the doctors in question were MORE \capable/ than they
seemed because they knew the correct treatment but were giving tranks anyway?
I realize that doctors have to make a living, but it seems to me that you
of all people would be one of the last to practice "Don't give them what
they need, give them what they want" medicine.  Any other folks have comments
along these subject lines?  Do you tell the woman to leave her wife-beating
husband who is making her so nervous and mentally-frazzled (not to mention
bruised)?  Or do you give her the Valium she came for cause that's what she
wants and she'll just go to another doctor and get them if you won't give
them to her?

Comments?
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