There is a poll on the Canadian Healthcare Network site asking doctors if it's ever ok to yell at patients. From the comments, I think it's safe to say that yelling is not the right thing to do, and that doctors are generally appalled by the idea.
Except with my mom. She was demanding, opinionated and her voice was loud. She often went to her doctors and wore them down demanding treatments and antibiotics for minor things they weren't really needed for. She ignored advice about her decades-long 2 to 3 day a pack smoking. I think her normal doctors were a little afraid of her and tiptoed around her.
Then, one day at the age of 80 she ended up in the ER, with breathing problems related to her smoking. He was the first to yell at her when she tried to pooh-pooh the damage he was pointing to on the xray. She burst into tears when he left, but she resolved then and there to quit on the spot saying he was right. She was one of those people who had more respect for people who stood up to her. And she did quit, cold turkey.
I wish someone in a white coat had yelled at her decades earlier. I was annoyed at all this, but not for the reason you might think. You see, I had bad asthma as kid and several hospitalizations. My doctors kept telling her to not smoke around me or in the house. She ignored them.
So, for her it worked. Though for most people a yelling #doctor is a terrible idea. She was an exception.
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