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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.