[Arainach]

>aren't trying to swab some magic block-dust on problems

That's exactly what patients are doing. Entire industries are built around this. People don't want to be told the hard answers to their problems, they want to do whatever they want and then take one tiny pill that causes weight loss, resistance to heart and respiratory disease, and increased libido.

>I also don't think your scenario is fair. The customer isn't just showing up & ordering you around

Read the stories. Watch the news. This is exactly what is going on. There is not a good chance that the patient knows what they're talking about - the overwhelming majority saw a quack on Facebook or Oprah saying something clearly wrong and stopped looking further because they want that one easy answer.

[rektide]

discarding & scorning all the public because there is some noteable contemporary upswell of problematic rank populist idiocracy about is not an elitism i can get behind.

if indeed a patient is requesting modern quackery, then yes, reject that. but simply turning up your nose at "Google Medical School" & dismissing all patient concerns blanketly is not ok.