To address your top sentence:
UHH, YEAH BRO. 90% of my patients in total (regardless of whether or not they require a LP) are histrionic and poor historians. You clearly don't work in the ED.
To address your bottom sentence: "Yeah, you're right, taking a careful history is always impor-...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA.
Ohh, Christ - thank God you don't do EM. You'd never make it a shift.
@turkeyjerky and I cross swords on occasion on here, but he's dead-nuts-on-point here. What 90% of my patients really need is a good healthy dose of "shut the eff up and quit whining", but you can't say that - because this is America, where everything is a "disability", including failure to act like an adult. Someones, pain - or the threat thereof, is a very effective truth serum.
Guys, guys... the fact that he asked
"Does that sound believable to you?".... AHHAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAHAAAAA! ! !
I'm laughing so hard I scared the cat and woke up the wife. Now, she's mad and it's his fault. LOL.