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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lindisfel" data-source="post: 1921966" data-attributes="member: 57698">Doctor knows best?I was really disturbed by a programme on R4 at lunch time today where doctors were saying patients should not have blood test originated in the home done privately because they would not understand them properly and it would worry the patients concerned.I don't know about you,  it is not knowing that bothers me and GPs are not infallible.What really steamed me up was a Prof of medicine that disuaded a guy who wanted a prostate specific antigen test to not having one.Criminal I call it.  I asked for one 19 years ago but my doctor wouldnt do it although my daughter recommended I got one.Four years later I insisted I had one and I more or less browbeat my doctor into giving me one!A high reading and biopsies and scans later revealed I had a bilateral stage three carcinoma that required radical radiotherapy for eight weeks and three years hormone therapy.Don't let them over rule your gut and reasoned belief with a supercilious doctor knows best, attitude. It your life in the balance not theirs.D.</blockquote>

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