My wife had breast cancer, muliple lumps irregular shaped, the only answer was full mastectomy, except the oncologist wanted to do a biopsy before they did they surgery.
"Why?" I asked, "You already said that the safest option is to perform the mastectomy, right?"
The doctor replied, "Well, yes but we'd like to know what we are facing before we got in."
Me, "Will it change what you do?"
Doctor, "No"
Me, "Isn't bad to poke the tumor because can't that actually cause cells to migrate?"
Doctor, "yes"
Me, "So what's the benefit?"
Doctor, "We just want to know."
Me, "It seems like either you are padding the bill or you are just following some playbook because you actually don't know what you are doing."
Doctor, "We're done here."
After the surgery,
Doctor, "We discovered cancer cells in the lymph node, but that's probably just a side effect from the biop........" At that point he realized what he was saying and he also realized that I was ready to launch myself at him.