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Responses by many people on the list reflect a great deal of anger and
unhappiness over certain attitudes displayed by their physicians. As one
who has watched the development of men and women into physicians, it seems
that one thing that does not often get taught in medical school is to simply
say "I don't know what is wrong with you and that doesn't mean it is all
in your head." Somewhere around the third or forth year of medical school,
the students change from from asking questions to
simply giving answers. It seems that not to know and to enter into a more
cooperative, exploratory  endeavor with the patient is not part of the
medical model for many. There are many exceptions to this statement but my
own experience is that it is all too often true.

Perhaps some of the physicians on the list could comment on this problem.

Robert Peterson
University of Nevada