Doctors have an ethical obligation to inform the patient of all that they know regarding that patients health in a timely manner. This allows the patient to make informed decisions, seek out substantiating or differentiating opinions, and more forward promptly with a treatment plan based on complete understanding of their situation. Any doctor who is unwilling to talk with you until you have that complete understanding is not providing you with proper care in my opinion. As you can read in the many posts on this board, patients have had to become their own strong advocates for action and proper care. And an overloaded doctor, or worse one that has less concern for the wellbeing of his patient population than would be expected, is one that needs aggressive participation from the family and patient to get them moving. If they do not, go elsewhere. Delays in detection, diagnosis, or initiating treatment which have a negative impact on the outcome of the patients