Hi Cheese
I agree on this
. In an ideal world, treating a patient is in fact a team work patient <-> doctor, where we as patients "know" more than the doctor in terms of what and how we feel, while the doctors knows more than us about the treatment options. In real world however, there are 2 more things to take into account:
- the patient learns something from the doctor and the doctor learns also something from the patient. I see here important that both, the doctor and the patient are open to such learning and do not reject the learning. Sometines it happens that a certain information reaches the patient first. Being open to learn, no matter if one is doctor or not, is an important skill that is to admire and foster and which creates room for new approaches. And informing your doctor and obtaining his/her support for "unofficial" generic medication from India is a new approach (even if in other parts of the world is a known approach)
- teamwork does not always happen .... and this is why most dramas happen. And also here is where one start to hear more about clichees like "acting in patients interest", "safety first", etc, as means to justify the lack of action and the preference to stick to the knitting.