According to some thoughts of wisdom, “a healthy person is a very sick person who has not seen a doctor yet”. After that, a guessing game starts. Almost everyone’s reaction when the tests are bad is denial. Once the person is out of denial they want a second or third opinion, hoping that the bad news will somehow go away. Miraculously, this is sometimes the case, when the second test is contradicting the first, and everything is fine again, along with the cursing of the first negligent and incompetent team who came up with the bad news, clearly wrong. But are they? The only way to find out is getting a third opinion. Well, at least in Canada this is not really possible. Reason? Some institutions or people may get discredited or offended, not a pleasant or acceptable thing in a politically correct society. Everything is on record. Every doctor can see who did what, and will not do anything that may lead to question the work of an esteemed colleague, whom you may need to cover for you when your time to make mistakes, comes. Read more…