To the doctors of Reddit, what is it like when you have a doctor's appointment?

I avoid disclosing I'm a doctor unless specifically asked what I do for work.

I think I'm better taking care of when the doc slash team is most comfortable and working in their routine.

Difficult and demanding patients who request special treatment often have worse outcomes.

I don't want to be one of them.

I completely agree.

I never tell them I'm a doctor.

Same thing when I take my kids to a pediatrician.

I just want to be treated like a regular patient.

Only exception was when I broke my hand and needed it operated on ASAP, not 10 days later.

Being an ER resident, I always wonder which one of my co-residents

is working at the emergency department as I drive home from a shift, knowing if something were to happen,

they would be checking my rectal tone in front of all my coworkers. And then I think about how big their

hands are. With my mom, it was like this. Mom, I think I have basal cell carcinoma on my back, but I can't see it quite clearly.

Derm, you do have basal cell carcinoma. Good job!

Went to student health as a med student.

Attending I worked with the week before does my pap.

With the resident, he asked, I said yes. Kept quizzing me.

What am I looking for? What does it mean if the pap is positive? Etc. I'm getting questions right,

but he's being real weird about it. Realized in parking lot after appointment, he was asking the

resident, not me. Rotate with said resident a few months later.

Bad, because I can see all the shortcuts they're taking,

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