I had some of this problem when I was in the hospital with my youngest son. The doctors asked questions, but answered none; there reply to my questions -- a result of theirs -- was "It's nothing."
On the last day, I kind of flipped a gasket (I was there for 9 days) and essentially said, "If all of these questions are being asked for No Damn Reason, then guess bloody what? I'm not answering any more of them. I'm tired of being treated like a moron. I'm not willing to participate in your god@#$ research project, and, at the moment, you can all go to hell."
My favourite? The neurologist. When I started to ask a couple of relevant questions about their treatment plans, she asked me why I was asking, and where I'd gotten my information from. I said, "As I've been told so little, I've been doing some research on the internet."
She said, with obvious contempt, "Oh, the internet."
And I said, "If you think the American Academy of Neurology is comprised of quacks and loons, do please enlighten me, and I'll stop reading."
So she shut up.
But my pediatrician, who I adore, and who works out of Sick Kids, said that it's really, really rare for people to actually do any research, or to be knowledgeable about medical things; that usually, when things happen to their small children that they don't understand, they fly into a blind, hysterical panic and that doctors, like people, react to blind hysteria in different ways.
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On the last day, I kind of flipped a gasket (I was there for 9 days) and essentially said, "If all of these questions are being asked for No Damn Reason, then guess bloody what? I'm not answering any more of them. I'm tired of being treated like a moron. I'm not willing to participate in your god@#$ research project, and, at the moment, you can all go to hell."
My favourite? The neurologist. When I started to ask a couple of relevant questions about their treatment plans, she asked me why I was asking, and where I'd gotten my information from. I said, "As I've been told so little, I've been doing some research on the internet."
She said, with obvious contempt, "Oh, the internet."
And I said, "If you think the American Academy of Neurology is comprised of quacks and loons, do please enlighten me, and I'll stop reading."
So she shut up.
But my pediatrician, who I adore, and who works out of Sick Kids, said that it's really, really rare for people to actually do any research, or to be knowledgeable about medical things; that usually, when things happen to their small children that they don't understand, they fly into a blind, hysterical panic and that doctors, like people, react to blind hysteria in different ways.
I'm really sorry, though; it's awful.