When Your Mother Knows More Than Your Doctor
<p>We all have stories about when the doctor was wrong. As a parent, I firmly believed that we knew our kids better than anyone else, and if we thought there was something wrong, there was something wrong. I’ve met hundreds of such parents in my time as a physician. I’ve heard countless times, “Doctor, I know my child. You can’t be right.” I’ve learned to listen to those times. As the modern American philosopher, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkYusko" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Yusko</a>, says, “Humility = edge.”</p>
<p>In treating addiction, I’ve also seen times when a family needed to be right. By “need,” I mean that the family members had a stake in the patient’s outcome that had nothing to do with the patient. They believed that a patient’s diagnosis reflected on them, and they had a stake in the matter. I guess it’s one thing to bring your son to the hospital and go home and tell your neighbors he has a heart condition and a completely different thing to bring him to rehab and go home and tell them he has addiction. As they say, addiction is a family disease. So in treating addiction, it’s hard to know when a family is telling you what they know or what they “need” to know.</p>
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