I Got This

This rant comes from a recent lunchtime discussion with my wife (also a radiologist, as I think you all know). She's a very bright woman and does NOT suffer fools gladly. Well, except for me. Fortunately, I get a pass. do a study? Do you get mad? Are you cool with it? Do you smile and do it exactly as they requested? Make a quizzical face and point out politely the flaws in their statements to initiate an academic discourse? Or are you (as I imagine most of us are) the ultimate in passivity-aggressivity, smiling and nodding, and then turning around and doing exactly what you know is the right way to do it? You know from whence this came; the person who tells you precisely (or perhaps more appropriately, imprecisely) Do other physicians have to put up with this? Do you think people tell the anesthesiologist to use propofol? "Please, nothing else. Do not substitute." Or that they request the incision be closed with 6-0 Prolene instead of adhesive? Have you ever heard angiogram? Or how about demanding the cardiolo