Some oddities of communicating with doctors

One aspect of seeing a doctor is you will remember them (often vividly) and whatever rapport you thought had been established, but when you next see them (assuming weeks or months have passed), they almost certainly will not share your memories of whatever rapport you may have thought had been established, if they remember you at all. This can make them seem cold or unfocused or unstable.

From their POV, many doctors handle this by being kind of plastic friendly at best. For patients, it’s weird because there are few other communications as important as with your doctor and yet there is almost no one else you know who is as disconnected from normal relationship dynamics with you as your doctor. So a doctor’s mood when you see them probably has next to nothing to do with you.

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