If these people are professionals why should anyone doubt them? If you are doubting them, on what basis are you doubting them? Do you know something that they don't know? If you doubt them because of a gut feeling, what is giving you that gut feeling? Why is your gut feeling more right, in comparison to years of education, training, and experience?
2007-12-02 17:19:58 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don Printninja:
Did it feel good typing that little tidbit. It is a figure of speech. Some people?
2007-12-02 17:30:24 · update #1
Speaking for doctors, no they are not always correct. I am a nursing student so I see how things should be done and how they actually are--there are mistakes on sterile/clean procedure etc. Think also of all the cases where someone has died from a doctors mistake. I guess for myself, i do trust them, as MOST professionals are good at what they do, BUT I can't put my 100% trust based on what I have seen from experience.
2007-12-02 17:25:48 · answer #1 · answered by Alleykat 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The "gut" feeling doesn't have it's origins in the gut. It comes from the brain trying to tell us something important, often an unconscious message that would be too complex or time-consuming for one to mull over at the time it happens. Usually when you go back and re-examine your gut feelings, you'll find there's some pretty logical explanations for why you were feeling that way.
That said, you should never trust anyone implicitly. The more you know about a situation, the better equipped you are to make a good choice. When it comes to trusting people, the old saying, "the proof is in the pudding" is what you use. You look at how they performed for others in the past, and you talk to other people about their experiences with them first.
2007-12-02 17:25:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the end, it is your health, your legal status, your mental health that is on the line, not theirs. You as a paying consumer of their services have every right to question them, and if necessary, go and get a second opinion if for some reason you feel that the answers you are getting aren't quite right.
Don't be so quick to blow off gut feelings or intuition. These things are actually a lifetime of experiences all condensed into a protection mechanism that most of us possess, even though most experts can't pinpoint exactly what it is or how it works. I know from personal experience that whenever I have gone against my own intuition, I've regretted it. I've almost always found out later that I had a good reason to feel the way I did, even if I didn't know what that specific reason was at the time.
BTW - Most good professionals (doctors, lawyers, shrinks, stock brokers, etc) will actually encourage you to seek a second opinion or will refer you to another colleague of theirs if you are uncomfortable with anything they are saying or doing.
2007-12-02 17:40:00 · answer #3 · answered by the phantom 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because people are people, and subject to the same proclivity for any number and variety of errors as anyone else.
They lie, cheat, steal, make bad judment calls, are biased, and so on. many (more each day) care more about the bottom line--or lining their pockets--hhan for those who place their health and circumstances in their hands.
But I trust those that I call 'my' doctors and my attorney to do their job to the best of their ability. I trust that their best includes a high level of expertise, many years of experience, and high moral character.
Education, training, and experience can't make a bad professional a good one. Although lack of these things can cause a person who could be a good docor, lawyer, or pschologist a bad one.
Hope I helped. God bless you.
2007-12-02 17:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by 1985 & going strong 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You need to remember that while these people are professionals, they are NOT intimately aware of all the circumstances in any particular case. For instance, if you tell your doctor that you are in pain, and that doctor tells you there shouldn't be any pain, does that make the pain go away? (I had something like that happen with a dentist... got my novocaine and the dentist started extracting my wisdom teeth... and told me I didn't have pain while tears rolled down my face from it... yeah... he wound up giving me more novocaine, apparently to shut me up... and then I didn't feel as much pain.... what a concept, huh?). Anyhow... they can't know everything about the situation at hand because as professionals, they can't really afford to.
2007-12-02 17:28:19 · answer #5 · answered by dj.hatchytt 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You should always seek a second opinion especially in matters of great importance in your life and where your health is concerned . To err is human and it makes no difference how well educated a person is, nobody is beyond error.
2007-12-02 17:25:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let Go And Let God- That is Powerful! I do believe that it doesn't erase the moments of cravings and self-doubt at times. Those things are hard to be 'fixed'.
2016-04-07 05:06:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. No one should be trusted 100% Everyone makes mistakes. Doctors know this, that's why it is common to get several opinions.
Unquestioning faith in anything is never a smart move.
2007-12-02 17:27:42 · answer #8 · answered by Brent Y 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. We're all only human. Just because you're a professional in something, doesn't mean you know everything. There's a saying, "When you hear hooves behind you, expect to turn around and see horses, not zebras" -- sometimes, however, they're Zebras. Expect errors.
2007-12-02 17:29:04 · answer #9 · answered by ♥-Due June 7th!-♥ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I trust MY doctor, but there are doctors out there that are just in it for the money.
I trust MY lawyer, but if you watch TV today, there are lawyers that are on TV ready to take a case and sue anytime. (ambulance chasers)
Psychologists, I don't put to much stock into them.
2007-12-02 17:27:18 · answer #10 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋