Words cannot express how deeply I believed this statement to be true. So now after all these years, I decided to take her advice. After all, even if he could not help me, my condition was such that he could do very little damage to me. Most nurses are like me, I believe. We like to work with a doctor and evaluate him before we go to him as a patient.
All doctors have their own ideas as to how to treat a patient.
So do all nurses. Naturally a person likes to go to one that agrees with her own ideas. I had always chosen my doctors with great care. I either knew them personally, or they were highly recommended by my co-workers. Now, I planned to go to a doctor whose name I had picked out of the phone directory, and who practiced an art that was condemned by my own profession.