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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Lindsay Beyerstein‏ @beyerstein 17 Aug 2019

      Lindsay Beyerstein Retweeted David Juurlink

      Suppose you always strive to tell the truth, but your doctor believes you're a liar. Does that mean you have a moral obligation to say you drink less than you actually do so that your doctor will come away knowing the truth?https://twitter.com/DavidJuurlink/status/1161605846775803905 …

      Lindsay Beyerstein added,

      David Juurlink @DavidJuurlink
      I am an INTERNIST. I like to ask about ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION. If you tell me you have ONE TO TWO drinks per day, I will assume you have THREE TO SIX drinks per day. If you don’t like it, DRINK LESS. https://twitter.com/DGlaucomflecken/status/1159547567673245696 …
      12 replies 3 retweets 34 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Aug 2019
      Replying to @beyerstein

      He's not wrong, though. Patients almost always underestimate or understate how much they do things that are bad for their health and overestimate or overstate how much they do things that are good for their health.

      2:36 PM - 17 Aug 2019
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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 17 Aug 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @beyerstein

          It's also usually not lying but more selective memory that leads patients to underreport the unhealthy things they do and to overreport the healthy.

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        1. Norma Laming  💙‏ @TheSandlings 17 Aug 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @beyerstein

          I was asked how much I drink and I said about a bottle of wine a year. That was written down as a bottle a week. I can’t remember when I last drank alcohol.

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        2. (((Mark)))‏ @MarkRap40434853 17 Aug 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @beyerstein

          That brings up an interesting point. Yes, many patients do lie to their doctors. Yet some don’t. As a patient I sometimes feel I need to ‘prove’ to my doctor that I am truthful or trust worthy. Like when a doctor commends me during history taking. 1/2

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        3. (((Mark)))‏ @MarkRap40434853 17 Aug 2019
          Replying to @MarkRap40434853 @gorskon @beyerstein

          Then there is an idea if the patient can trust the Doctor. I have had a few issues where I felt I have been scolded. At least onetime I felt the need to say, I am being truthful, don’t you want to know the truth? Ok one more 2/3

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        1. Hannah with an ‘S’‏ @AvogadroAvocado 18 Aug 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @beyerstein

          People in general overestimate the good things they do and underestimate the bad things. Doctors also do this about their patients. Believe your patients, unless you have evidence to prove otherwise.

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