Dear Anita,

I think perhaps it is out of her scope of practice, and perhaps she hesitated before knowing the full story/imaging etc.

I don’t know her/the situation but I will say that unfortunately these days there is so much information out there in the world/internet that perhaps some providers wait for the whole story to explain any details – as in there is “too much information” at times – so patients may question any opinion until they “know for sure.”

Perhaps this is not the case at all and she truly had no idea!

Medicine is unpredictable – and so some physicians (or NPs maybe) are very conservative and give no feedback until the end.  Others are more “open” and say in my opinion this seems like X, but let’s wait until the results come back.

As you can tell I am in the latter, my “open-ness” does correlate to my profession – and it benefits patients, it is the human touch.  I can’t say I am superior than others that may not provide this, but just different.

This NP maybe was just different.

I can see your hesitation in getting this other exam, perhaps fear of the results, and perhaps sheer exhaustion of going through anything medical.  It is in the pain in the butt to go, wait in the waiting room, change, go through the whole hoopla.  Not fun.

Don’t worry too much about it, but of course don’t prolong too long.  Give yourself perhaps another month?