I always end up getting into arguments with MDs who try to placate or dismiss me with half-assed answers to my purely theoretical/passing through my brain at that moment/second-tier questions. I get that they are busy. But when I ask a question and they say "You don't have to worry about that" and I say that I didn't ask if I have to worry about it, it just goes downhill. Most of it is my inability to keep my mouth shut, although I am getting better. I also think most of the time people want placation and would get stressed out with actual answers, so I understand why I get placated, I supposed, but it still makes me mad.
The worst was when I got into an argument on the operating room prep table/gurney (when I was getting my tonsils out in college) and I asked the doctor what was in the bag and he said saline. Obviously it wasn't saline, because I was having a loopy reaction, and I accused him of lying. It devolved from there. I had time to ask if he knew the difference between my tonsils and my ovaries right before I went out and came to still angry, but he was gone.
(The reason I asked that was because the hospital had just taken out a woman's ovaries instead of her appendix, so she woke up sterile and THEN her appendix burst. It was in the news and was fresh in everyone's mind at the time.)
I think my chart has been flagged.
Fortunately, our pediatrician and I get along really well, and she doesn't ever not ask questions, and when I ask for more technical information she seems happy to share it. She even participated in an anti-vacciner rant I went off on in the treatment room. That was fun.
