I TOTALLY and WHOLE HEARTEDLY object to you wondering about who are YOU to question this doctor who has whatever reputation, studied and went to medication school (ya know, SOMEBODY has to be in the below 50th percentile group in medication school and every other group!), etc.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU are the OWNER of your body, the one who knows what that body needs to do, how it works, what is going on with it. YOU are the one who has to spend the rest of your life with the results of that doctor's actions.
A doctor may know a whole lot about how MOST people's bodies work, maybe even knows a lot about how to fix a certain problem with a body, but they are experts in some area of study. YOU, Ms DaisyFace, are the flat out, no questioning it, totally top dog, EXPERT in your body. NO ONE knows more about your body than you do.
You are exactly the right person to question this doctor. doctor gets to go home, chill out, NOT DEAL with side effects/problems/recovery/aftermath of whatever procedure she does to you.
Just like NO ONE can know your daughter better, know everything about her more than you do,no doctor can know you better than you do.
In fact, if you want good medical care you MUST, totally have to, question the doctor. Esp about major stuff, but even about minor stuff. Heck, I ask questions when husband is sick! Back when he had that skin cancer taken off of his shoulder, I questioned everything. We had to same doctor and she is used to me, so it wasn't a problem. What would I have done it if was a problem? Found a new doctor to take it off. I even wanted to know why she chose this instead of that, why do the other, etc...
I am even training my kids that it is NOT OK to just go along iwth the doctor unless it is something very minor. It shouldn't matter if the doctor likes you asking questions or don 't like her answers. YOU are the CONSUMER and that doctor is waiting on you, just like at a restaurant except the results can last for decades rather than just one bad meal.
Seriously, anytime, every time that little voice inside you asks why you are questioning the doctor, who are you to question the doctor, tell that voice to shut up, that you are the one questioning the doctor because you are the one who has to llive with, survive, suffer from the doctor's handiwork. The doctor gets to go home at night without having to handle the problems you may be having.
Off my soapbox, sort of. I got a lot of "you can't ?? a doctor, they are always right, always and you are not so go sit and shut up" as a teen. I had problems no one could diagnosis and it wasn't untiil I asked ??? and inssted on real answers that I came close to having the answers and figuring out what the problems are. Even so, at 22 or 23, I had to tell the docs what was causing my symptoms (fibromyalgia) and teach them what fibro was, based on research I had done.
So you are EXACTLY the person to question the doctor, any doctor, every time!!!