That’s a good topic. A few days ago my niece, who is a student at the University of Texas asked me something about something having to do with one of her classes. I said, Oh, that’s easy, that’s just like quantum mechanics and particle physics, just *******. I found that I answered her question from my knowledge base and studies rather than from her perspective totally ignoring the fact that it isn’t easy for everyone it just did not answer her questions. Doctors all tend to do the same thing. It’s not usually deliberate, it is rarely deliberate, it’s just that they don;t know how to put it in a format that people can understand. My doc never tells me anything, he tell me “read the path results”. I’m a doctor, not in his field though, but he can do that with me. He does not do it with his other patients He told me once that surgeons love surgery, that’s why they are surgeons and they leave the real world in a manner of speaking, and speak only in medical terms. It really is tough, it’s tough for me. So have mercy on us, pray for us and above all else demand that they make every step crystal clear. And people who have intellectual or educational limitations, language limitations, and are afraid, tend not to hear what is said, literally, let alone process it. But they do need, in general terms at least, to try harder. Keep in mind they may not even be aware they are leaving out information that is important to the patient.
Kiowa
