Personal example: my primary care physician scheduled me for a physical, including picking the date, without even asking. It just showed up on my online chart. Okay, I hadn't had a physical for a while, so I just went with it. While stopped at an intersection on the way to his office, a woman plowed into me and 2 other cars because she wasn't paying attention, and was likely on her phone. That wreck generated $45K of medical bills for me and a 21-month settlement process.
Onward and upward: I did eventually do a physical, after getting over the wreck. My blood work came back with crazy liver enzyme numbers, 4-9x higher than they should have been. My Dr thought I might have hepatitis and ordered a full hep screen. Before doing that, I did some research, and ran across a NIH paper saying "Hey, before you enroll anyone into drug trials, make sure they aren't working out regularly, because that causes hugely elevated liver enzymes and throws off the trial." Hmm... I mentioned this to my Dr and he said no, that's not it, but maybe get off your protein shakes 2 weeks before the blood test. I read about that, and protein shakes don't affect the liver enzymes. So I decided to stop workouts for 2 weeks AND stop protein shakes. Took the blood test and my liver values were completely normal, and negative for hepatitis.
While they may have good intentions, doctors don't always know or understand what they're looking at. I think I could have easily ended up with a liver biopsy had I not stopped my workouts before the 2nd blood test.
Onward and upward: I did eventually do a physical, after getting over the wreck. My blood work came back with crazy liver enzyme numbers, 4-9x higher than they should have been. My Dr thought I might have hepatitis and ordered a full hep screen. Before doing that, I did some research, and ran across a NIH paper saying "Hey, before you enroll anyone into drug trials, make sure they aren't working out regularly, because that causes hugely elevated liver enzymes and throws off the trial." Hmm... I mentioned this to my Dr and he said no, that's not it, but maybe get off your protein shakes 2 weeks before the blood test. I read about that, and protein shakes don't affect the liver enzymes. So I decided to stop workouts for 2 weeks AND stop protein shakes. Took the blood test and my liver values were completely normal, and negative for hepatitis.
While they may have good intentions, doctors don't always know or understand what they're looking at. I think I could have easily ended up with a liver biopsy had I not stopped my workouts before the 2nd blood test.