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by Neil44 1632 days ago
Before my daughter was born I sometimes felt like it was the doctors job to scare us with every worse case scenario possible. It was quite stressful and upsetting.
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I'm not certain that perk of parenthood ends at birth.
When my then-pregnant wife called our fertility clinic with a worry the nurse calmed her down but also basically told her “welcome to the rest of your life.”
The point of the profession is to find and address bad outcomes before they happen.
I had rather my doctor be upfront about all possible scenarios than to be try and nice about them and save possible information.