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It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied.

Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied. Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

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[–] • 5 pts

He could tell, but his divorce was costing him a fortune and his Porsche payment was past due. They used to bleed you for , but now they bleed you for money.

[–] • 4 pts (edited )

In Australia this kind of stuff is subsidised through Medicare so since you aren't paying anything yourself, they act like you're insane if you don't agree to a surprise surgical procedure on the spot. Hospital doctors will literally tell you out of the blue that they're gonna arrange surgery for you and 2 minutes later try to get your signature on some kind of medical consent document before you've been told why the procedure is even necessary.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

That's fucking nuts.

[–] • 1 pt

What makes it worse is that in public hospitals it's a panel of unseen doctors who decide the treatment, behind closed doors, on your behalf. Then they send one of them over for your signature. In theory that provides necessary oversight but in practice it's just a smug circlejerk of doctors who don't care about listening to the details first-hand from you, making a snap decision based on 3 lines of medical notes and disregarding everything else.

If you don't consent to whatever treatment the doctor presents you with, you're told that the panel will discuss your refusal, so it feels like it's 5-on-1 (not sure how big these decision panels really are) against your freedom of choice.