Doctors' disclosure wastes patients' time

OK, I'll try my best to be civil about this, but I hold out little hope.

Doctors are more likely to be wasting patients' valuable time when they want to make their patients more at ease by chatting, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine Wednesday.

My personal opinion is a doctor should spend more time "chatting" than giving me medical information.

Chatting with me means the doctor is interested in me as a human being. If I'm just a fucking cypher, the doctor will give me medical advice and send me out the door.

In other words, THE DOCTOR IS NOT WASTING MY VALUABLE TIME. Got it?

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