Thanks Mike.
I wonder how many doctors just get annoyed/angry every time a customer comes to them asking for some drug they saw on TV?
My wife told me about a patient at her practice that hadn't gotten a scan read by a radiologist yet, but the radiology office sent the actual imaging that he could download... So he asked Claude to read the scan and then asked the doctor about what Claude said 
Which is doubly stupid, because not only should you not trust AI (especially Ai that isn't very specialized and built to read diagnostic imaging) to be your doctor, but you also shouldn't go to your PCP and ask her to read a scan when she's not a radiologist and isn't qualified to read it anyway!
Bingo, on the bolded part.
Re: the question, I wonder too. I reckon personalities play into it to some extent. I used to see a PCP who had a pretty laissez-faire attitude and who I'd peg to be okay trying whatever a patient asks for as long as it's medically appropriate. I know a few for sure who have their preferred order of meds to try for certain things, and if you want to be treated by them for condition X, then you're going to try drugs A, B, and C, in that order. They feel like they know what works best, and that's what they're going to do.
There was a time not too long ago when kickbacks were the norm, and were somehow legal. I've heard of some guys around here who my wife knows who were geared for making as much $ as possible, and maybe weren't bad doctors, but that kind of thing is shady at best, and might lead to some ill-advised decisions at worst. A couple of those same doctors got raided by the DEA for other things, to the surprise of no one. If a doctor is willing to prescribe a drug and an incentive enters the picture in any way, well, that guy is also primed to be lax on his hydrocodone scripts and to be over-billing Medicare to the point of Medicare-fraud.
Now, that's all illegal. Drug companies can't have any kind of incentive programs with physicians, and drug reps who frequent practices aren't hardly allowed to even bring donuts. And I'd say that's probably for the best.
That's crazy about your wife's patient.....I didn't think imaging centers were supposed to release images that haven't been read yet. I feel like somebody messed up other than the patient.
