Howard Luks says it is normal that patients may not follow advice, and highlights the difficult conversation when a patient wants an intervention but the surgeon believes it is not indicated.
Yesterday's post prompted a number of practitioner responses expressing frustration that "patients don't listen to them". Well.... that's okay.
One of the hardest conversations in this profession is between the patient who wants something done and the surgeon who knows that
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