Who walks into the doctor's and gets an appointment if it is not either a routine check up or a complaint of something specific? I think a routine check up is the minimum care you would expect.
I know, but had to give an example based on their claim.
you did.
the original claim that if you go tell a doctor you've got cancer he will simply start treating you or running tests with no evidence presented.
He won't, He'll ask you to show some evidence and if you can't he'll suggest some possible evidence you might have noticed and if you still can't he'll ask you what makes you think you have cancer and if there's STILL no evidence being provided he'll send you on your way because he's not going to run a full set of tests just because you woke up and thought you had some nebulous cancer of the "I don't know what", with no symptoms
No, the original claim was that the doctor will automatically assume you don't have cancer.
I have shown that the doctor has no assumptions about your health when you walk in the door.
There are routine things that a happens at a doctors office before the doctor even sees you. They weigh you, the get your height, they get your blood pressure. All of these things are diagnostics to help determine if there is a significant variation to what is normal.
no.
These are things you pay for if you want a routine check up. My doctor doesn't weight me or check my height every time I go to see him. None of my doctors ever have except when I change surgery. It would be pointless, I know how tall I am and how much I weigh anyway, don't need to waste money having a doctor keep that info too. I'm not overly worried I'm in a Roald Dahl book and might get the dreaded shrinks.
He simply asks me what I'm there for and we proceed based off the evidence I provide.
If I have no evidence of a problem the doctor isn't going to go looking for it unless I press for it and provide some evidence.
Of course I suppose the doctor might weigh me if I was morbidly obese But then I guess I've already presented evidence by walking in the door.
I don't know what you are getting on about. You are describing a scenario that does not happen (other than the rare case of hypochondria) where someone walks into doctor claiming to have a disease without any symptoms.
The original claim was that the doctor assumes you have nothing wrong with you.
I have shown that in the two most likely scenarios, that a doctor does NOT assume anything about your health.
A routine check up, there is a minimum amount of testing done by the doctor. If the test results come back normal, the doctor then assumes there is nothing wrong.
An appointment that you make between check ups. YOU call the doctor and give him symptoms. Based on these symptoms, he orders tests to rule out possible diagnoses. Prior to you calling, the doctor is not assuming anything about your health. Once you call him, you have given him information and based on that information, might have an idea what might be wrong with you.
So please tell me which scenario the doctor automatically assumes you have nothing wrong with you?