Pennyaline wrote:
>
> On 8/13/2010 08:43, Pete C. wrote:
> > Dry cleaners clean my clothes without ego tripping. Shop clerks ring up
> > my purchases and check if they have stock in the back when something
> > isn't on the shelf without ego tripping. Fast food kids take my order
> > and get my food without ego tripping. The folks at the tire place put
> > new tires on my truck without ego tripping. The surveyor surveys my
> > property without ego tripping. The civil engineer designs my driveway
> > and septic system without ego tripping.
>
> But you have not yet given us any examples of how health care workers
> "ego trip," other than telling you to do things you don't want to do.
> That's not a problem with their egos. That's a problem with yours.

Health care service workers routinely give bad recommendations and then
ego trip when they're called on them. They routinely have great
difficulty admitting that their recommendation is not the only viable
option, or that a proposed alternate may well be a better option.

As I noted some time back in this thread, I would be dead if I
complacently followed a doctor's bad recommendations. I have at least
one relative who is dead as a result of blindly following bad advice
from a doctor.