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Default May 14, 2023 at 04:36 PM
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True. I think that's very true. And yeah, for example today I could have given up control but I decided to take a shower and kind of put the ball back in my own hands so to speak. And so that is a powerful action in itself.
Yeah I was lucky my first pdoc basically refused to take even the tiniest bit of control even though I was super confused early on. He might give me choices but it was shared decision making.

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Yeah I was lucky my first pdoc basically refused to take even the tiniest bit of control even though I was super confused early on. He might give me choices but it was shared decision making.
Yeah my best pdocs have been like that.

Lately I've had to be very assertive with my pdoc though which is frustrating. But I guess it is the way it is.

I gotta remember: "No" is a complete sentence.

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