Doctors and their manner and isms

A visit to the GP. The usual bish bash bosh. Why are some of these people so quick to diagnose and usher you out when you ask them why they are prescribing certain medication? Alright so we aren't qualified because we didn't spend seven or plus years at med school. But it doesn't mean we don't have the right to question decisions. People go on about rights and sometimes it gets bloody annoying. But in the case of what a GP prescribes, I really will question it. HOw many types of medication are out there? How do they get to market? Who decides which brands to buy? NICE? Is it a procurement process? After all the trials or just some? And I would save the NHS money because I would know which medications work effectively and which don't gel with others. Okay, so GP's have targets and time constraints and know it all politicians breathing down their necks. Only to find themselves promoted/shunted aside in a year. But just talk to us. Communication is key. If you learn one thing out of that module they should teach you at med school, it should be that listening to a patient, gives you so much more insight. The old school docs sometimes did the listening thing. And that is why we form an orderly LONG queue to see them at the surgery!