Dear Doctors.

Yes, you have your college degrees, following years of difficult, intensive training. You very well may and in fact, probably do, have years of experience of having correctly treated people, mostly with success. These are all valid, good things.

What you do NOT have is even one second of experience of being inside any other human being's body.

The single most valid and authoritative source of patient information that you will ever have free access to will not, does not, and 100% cannot come from any other source other than what you have the intellectual integrity and humility to seek out from the very source of that information: the patient.

You are incapable of assuming any human being's lived, experienced reality in any other way, no matter how truly competent you otherwise are.The single, most relevant and critically important information about your patient's condition IS AND MUST ALWAYS BE THE PATIENT HIM OR HERSELF 

Not from your training. Not from your external experiences, and sure as Hell not from your ego.

Therefore, when I truthfully inform you that it requires 60 mg of oral Prednisone to begin to even touch my exacerbated COPD, YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO ME - THE ONE WHO LIVES IN THE BODY - and dose correctly.

I live in my body and you DO NOT. Do NOT IGNORE our feedback in the conceited dismissal of presuming that the only person WHO LIVES IN THE BODY BEING TREATED is too stupid to convey the factual reality of that which works, the experience of the doses that are effective as opposed to your "but I KNOW BETTER" dismissive arrogance which delves into "Playing God" territory, beyond any room for denial of this fact.

We are not objects.We are not guinea pigs. And, some of us are NOT as stupid as you assume prima facie, by the blind arrogance you failed to remain aware of simply because "I'm a DOCTOR". Although you should trust in your knowledge and experience, it is not absolute.

With regard to your cluelessness of living even one split second in any body other than your own, which no human being on Earth can ever experience, you hinder uour ability to truly provide thoroughly effective care if you forget that the patient's input IS the most relevant of all.

I MATTER.

PATIENTS MATTER.

PATIENT FEEDBACK IS EXPONENTIALLY MORE VALID AND CRITICAL THAN ANY AND ALL BOOK LEARNING COMBINED.

With regard to accessing the factually lived experience of being IN THE BODY, YOU have read about and studied  the ocean; BUT I AM OUT THERE SWIMMING IN ITS CENTER!!!

And, by the way, where do you think most of the information you studied in your myriad med school textbooks came from? 

PATIENTS!!!