Let's take a deep breath and eliminate the politics and vitriol. If a physician -- the purported expert -- informs a layperson that the symptoms she is complaining of merit only a followup office visit, there are few of us that would patently ignore that advice and bolt to the emergency room. Goodman, if he is as gifted and caring as some posters believe, should have known that a colonoscopy patient complaining of pain and nausea should be examined immediately, not effectively told to "take an aspirin and call me in the morning."
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Let's take a deep breath and eliminate the politics and vitriol. If a physician -- the purported expert -- informs a layperson that the symptoms she is complaining of merit only a followup office visit, there are few of us that would patently ignore that advice and bolt to the emergency room. Goodman, if he is as gifted and caring as some posters believe, should have known that a colonoscopy patient complaining of pain and nausea should be examined immediately, not effectively told to "take an aspirin and call me in the morning."