[Mr Ramsbotham]

Most doctors, having invested years upwards of seven years of their lives in preparing to be a physician, don’t want to destroy that career over a politically incorrect prescription.

One of the pitfalls of working in a profession where your ability to work depends on a license. For a number of reasons physicians tend to be conformists, and this is one of the biggest reasons.

[gloryblaze]

... For a number of reasons physicians tend to be conformists ...

"Conformists" is a generously kind word.

[Madam Theophilus]

Technically, a license to practice medicine, means just that - you can prescribe what in your best knowledge may work. At least that was the way it was prior to the nationalization of medicine. Now it is all dictated by national guidelines written by pharma companies and the insurance companies along with the AMA enforce it by grading physicians on how well they prescribe the “correct” drug. Physicians need to document what you say to them about your health and then they must respond in the standardized way, even though human beings differ radically in their presentation of health or disease.

[MarMema]

RNs, LPNs, CNAs, veterinarians, probably many more.

[MarMema]

RNs, LPNs, CNAs, veterinarians, probably many more.