Uhhh.. no, I’ve never said that to a doctor.
Nor have I demanded surgery because some blogger said I had appendicitis.
Have you ever had an examination beyond somebody just taking a glance at you? If so, why?
The first person to catch a breast lump often isn’t a doctor, and is never a doctor just doing a quick visual. The first person is often the woman’s partner.
Once upon a time Mr. A felt a lump in Mrs. A’s breast. He put her hand so she could feel it too. Concerned, she went to her doctor, Dr. HG, and asked if he could detect the lump also. But Dr. HG said he was looking right at Mrs. A’s blouse and couldn’t see any cancerous lumps and Mrs. A is crazy to think that her husband would be able to detect something like that, because he’s not a doctor, and it’s a batsh!t crazy theory to suggest there’s a lump when a doctor looked right at her blouse and never noticed anything wrong.
Mrs. A took Dr. HG’s hand and put it where her husband had felt the lump, and asked, “What do you feel there?”
Dr. HG quickly drew his hand away and grabbed a piece of modeling clay. He made it into the shape of a dinosaur and put it inside Mrs. A’s blouse. Then he pointed and gathered all the office staff together and with much foot-stomping laughter said, “Look what that moonbat Mr. A says he sees a on his wife’s breast!”
And then the clinic staff threw Mr. and Mrs. A out of the clinic, with instructions that they could only come back if they agreed to NEVER talk about breast cancer, because they had proven they were moonbats who were non-credibly pretending to be doctors.
And everybody lived happily ever after.
The End.