What Your Doctor’s Really Thinking (But Won’t Say to Your Face)

The Worst Thing a Patient Did During Treatment…


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• “I’ve had patients hit on me, threaten to hit me with their car, ask me to party in the college dorms with them, and accuse me of having an affair with their wife (who was 30 years older than me).” —Anthony Youn, MD
• “Ignored sound medical advice for an alternative that hurt him, like the 20-year-old college student who, with the support of his family, refused curative therapy for lymphoma and chose exercise, diet, vitamins, enzymes — and a quick death.” —James C. Salwitz, MD
• “Told me she mailed in her stool-testing packet (screening for colon cancer), when she didn’t. Later, when I was seeing the patient’s daughter, I mentioned how bad I felt that we’d lost the packet. She rolled her eyes and said, ‘Right — like she would ever do the specimen collection!’ I was shocked that a patient would flat-out lie to her doctor.” —Mitch Kaminski, MD, a board-certified family medicine physician in Hammonton, New Jersey
• “Lied about pain to trick me into prescribing drugs.”—Kenneth Lin, MD, MPH



What Your Doctor’s Really Thinking (But Won’t Say to Your Face)
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