Why keep your doctor happy? Well, he's the one you tell all your secrets to, who diagnoses you, who decides what potentially lethal drugs you re going to get. Now hospital consultant and award-winning medical writer John Larkin tells you what's going through a doctor's brain, and how to use that to your mutual advantage. Learn the things that annoy doctors most and how (usually) to avoid them. Learn helpful medical knowhow - it's easier to talk with your doctor if you have an idea what he's rambling on about. But not too much. We don't want to sound as if we know more than he does.your doctor wouldn't like that.