[kaitai]

There can be a lot of psychological pressure. "Don't you want to get to the bottom of this? If we don't figure it out now, this could come back and be worse." Or with a kid, "The responsible thing to do would be to rule out (cancer or whatever)."

It takes a lot of courage and knowledge to say yes, my child is in pain, and I will decline additional medical treatment and testing and just wait it out. I have declined a lot of tests and some interventions. I can do this because I have a physician in the immediate family who I can call for a second opinion at any time, and I read said physician's medical journals, and I have academic access to journals so I can do some of my own research and decisionmaking. And maybe I'm a little hard-hearted or hyperrational or something, and I can plan out a course of watchful waiting and stick to it much more than other people I know.