Why r doctors stubborn when they r ill??
why is that while doctors are supposed to be ideal patients.
p.s:I'm a future doctor and stubborn too when I'm ill...
Answer:
Because Doctors are deprived of the single most effective treatment of illness...Commonly known as the placebo effect.
Our bodies, when confronted with disease of any kind will do one of three things, with or without any treatment at all...
1:Get better.
2:Get worse.
3:Remain the same...
Doctors (who've been at it a while,) know that the medical profession's success depends mostly on clean water and the confidence of the masses in the competence of the medical profession and their doctor in particular, the "treatment" often does little more than reassure the patient that they will get well, as proven in the statistical similarities of the FDA's "double-blind" test results for medicinal approval (to be approved as "effective" a medication need only show a 5% margin of success over a placebo groups and untreated control groups, oh, and there is a protocol where the results of the test can be scrapped and restarted if the pharmaceutical company claims that the trial became "unblinded" which is what they do if all test groups show statistically insignificant differences...)
Not to mention that they may feel a prideful sting from seeking medical advice and another doctor, and usually thinking that another person would be less qualified to diagnose and treat them since "they know their own bodies."
The more people know about modern medicine, the more skeptical they tend to be about getting treatment for illnesses. Most of the treatments don't work most of the time. Most patients will recover from most illnesses without any treatment. Some medical treatment can kill the patient. So when doctors are resistant to getting their illnesses treated, it's not stubbornness, it's just a rational realization that medicine doesn't have much to offer.
Same reason most people don't like to hang out at work when they aren't working.
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