Don't Travel A Smash But Because Your Doc Is A Hammer

A friend writes:

 

When my missy was a twelvemonth old, she was given a diagnosis of "Failure to Thrive." The definition is something similar if your length percentile keeps growing but your weight percentile falls. Anyway she wasn't eating enough.

Her PCP sent us to a famous gastroenterologist who said he wanted to produce an endoscopy. That would hateful putting her nether full general anesthesia in addition to a menstruum inwards the hospital. I asked, "What are you lot looking for?" He said he wanted to run across if her esophagus was inflamed.

I thus asked, "What would you lot produce most it if it is?" He said he would plough over her an antacid.

I said, "Is the antacid dangerous?" He said no.

So I refused the endoscopy in addition to told him to prescribe the antacid. It was both a diagnostic in addition to a treatment.

End of the story: It did nothing.

Moral of the story: Don't endure a boom only because your MD is a hammer.

P.S. The missy is thriving . . . inwards college.

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