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I didn't have much of a problem with the GP's mildly dismissive comment about Hickey's talks, nor was I hugely concerned that you opened a can of worms about it. What I would, however, like to remark on how your comment forced me to think of you as a complete dumbass who has no business mingling with people who, like most of us, get paid for our ability to think logically.

In your "clever" attempt at irony, you ask your parent about his own, presumably better talks. Please take a moment to reflect on how utterly stupid this line of attack is!

Give up? OK, here's the explanation, by analogy: I'm completely incapable of building an automobile. Yet, having driven both, I'm qualified to comment that a Geo Prizm is an underpowered, shoddily constructed car - at least when compared to my Lexus. A talk is a product created for the benefit of an audience, and as the consumers of such a service, the audience - including the GP - is probably best qualified to judge it. To imply that only a producer of talks may have an opinion on a talk is shockingly stupid.

Before you attempt another such put-down, please consider how it will reflect on you, and whether it might not be more sensible to keep your mouth shut!
Thank you for outlining the basics of how we can ask questions of our doctors without feeling (or sounding) like we are saying "I don't trust you to know what you're doing". As you point out, often the doctors DO have reasons, but sometimes they might do it because if they don't, other patients will complain that the doctor "didn't do anything".

When we're sick or worried, it's easy to forget to ask these questions. I don't even manage to ask them of my car mechanic.
Wow. I don't usually feel the need to defend a service that has been unfriendly to people that I know in the past, but this article makes it's points poorly.

I've used AirBnB, typically when traveling in Austin or the west coast, a couple of times now. I've never paid more than half the cost of a (cheap) hotel room. Many times, the host has been gracious with their time and kitchen, they have had other amenities like being close to public transit and in a quiet part of town, pets (I love dogs, and my day feels incomplete unless I've gotten to quiet down for sleep with a dog warming my feet), free internet, and they've made it easy to stay as close to my normal routine and life when it would otherwise be completely derailed. I don't have enough time or energy to battle the illness and malaise that level of disruption brings.

Obviously, buyer beware. Just like I check hotel reviews to make sure there are no reports of bedbugs, I verify the type of area that the hotel is in and what kind of crime I can expect to know what personal precautions to take, and I try to book by calling the hotel to get a handle on customer service, I do the same with places I would stay listed with AirBnB.

When I travel for business, I generally have to stay in hotels. The difference is night and day. I'm locked into whatever food is available in the hotel or nearby, especially if I don't have a rental car. This makes it hard to stay on a diet. It's tough to get exercise sometimes. Counting food, it costs three times as much to stay in a hotel. If money is not an object, that's totally your call, but I could've bought two Ikea beds for the difference between AirBnB and a hotel the last time I traveled on my own time and bill to Portland, Oregon.