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Originally Posted by Star Ferry
I get his frustration because it's an online forum, not a peer reviewed journal. do doctors cite sources when giving patients their medical opinion? not usually. were all of the doctors here asked for supporting cites? no.
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That's what the medical license issued by your state is there for...
It means they don't really need to.
In case you have reservation regarding the course of treatment, they will not hesitate to give it to you.
But yeah, in the medical report that your doctor has to spend nearly an hour typing up after even a 5 minute visit, he will have to explain everything and provide a citation for novel treatment method if another doctor needs to retrieve that patient's records to find out what's going with him on a future visit.
Bottom line is this.
Members here on this forum with scientific and medical back grounds are not here to be perceived as omnipotent or intellectually superior.
We're simply here b/c we care about the well being of our family, friends, and neighbors.
It's not too inspiring to help when you're constantly being shouted down by an ignorant buffoon(not you btw) w/ zero experience in the field behaving like a god damn know it all.
Can you imagine person walking into a watch repair shop and refusing to accept any free advice on how to repair his watch or preserve his watch from harm? Now tell me, how much of an idiot would that person, refusing the talking points of an expert, look like?
Shit people, learn to accept some help with some f**cking class and grace for God's sake...