affliction so we can identify those unfit for government service?

Kinda like the 4-F classification for the draft.

If a patient, male or female, tells me they have "a high pain-tolerance", I have to restrain myself from rolling my eyes. I had a new-patient visit the other day, and she kept insisting that her expectations of our patient-provider relationship was that she wanted to "optimize" her health. She said it over and over. I was afraid to ask her what that meant, convinced I was going to hear a lot of crap about vaccine-skepticism, apple cider vinegar, massive vitamin doses, magnets, and all sorts of misinformed medical idiocies. I told her my approach to clinical medicine, wondering if she would consider this "optimizing" her health. Whether she shows up again in my exam room remains to be seen.

WTF, listen to medical professionals, not quacks

that is celebrating the stupid. They are emboldened.

...to be concerned that inanimate objects serve you in any way other than that for which they were designed? i.e. bottles contain liquid, benches provide seating. What a freakin' moran.

bench, or whatever, will judge you harshly if you do it the 'beta' way; he didn't bother to explain what the 'beta' way was. Or why he thought anyone would care how you did these things, much less judge you for it.