#1 Dinosaur looks at the implications of this request:
What if the roles were reversed? Certainly I’ve written myself orders for routine screening tests. I even have a “chart” for myself in my office to keep track of labs and immunizations and other things. I occasionally go see a doctor — usually a specialist — for specific acute problems, but I must confess that I do not have a personal physician. However if I found myself in the position of needing a primary physician for administrative purposes, and if that physician were to gently indicate that he (and I, for that matter) wouldn’t do what I was asking for a patient without a visit, I would probably sigh, admit to myself that he was right, and go see him as an actual patient.
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Don’t they say that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client?
Why is this situation any different?
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