You'd better hope your doctor is not as ordinary and fallible as your hairdresser. Hair grows back and you get the chance to do it again. If your doctor screws up removing your AVM or your cataract filled lens, you will be forever changed and neither of you will be happy. Of course doctors are frustrated by patients who lie by omission or comission and then are angry about not having their problems resolved. But doctors are very angry and frustrated by the expectation of patients that no matter how badly they treat their own bodies by riding ATVs over cliffs, crashing motorcycles, drinking, using recreational drugs, having plastic surgery like getting a facial, and on and on, the patient expects to leave the doctor made whole just like when they were at 18 years old. We expect to live forever in perfect health until we pass painlessly into whatever we believe is the next life - and the doctor damn well better make it happen because he's being paid to do it! Not by us mind - let the insurance company pay, or the government. It is our right to have perfect health and 24/7 access to our doctor so we won't be inconvenienced by having to miss work or the ball game or whatever we want to do just to get the kid a preschool physicial. Why can't they make things easier? After all, everything else in this country is designed to be convenient so why should getting your colon cancer removed disrupt your life? Things designed and made by man including cars, computers and the legal system break down and cannot be fixed but we're just supposed to accept this and get another or pay a settlement to remedy the problem. God made man and the expectation that man can cure all the defects a body can have is absurd - but Americans do expect it. And if they don't get it, they sue the doctor. Money makes things better - that's why we pay the CEO of every company now going broke on Wall St more than the operating budget of many medical schools. We know what we hold dear in this country and we reward it. The smart kids these days are in business or are pop stars because that's where the money is. I could rant on but I'm getting depressed and remembering why I left patient care in the first place.