# Tell me about your experience with Lisinopril and other ACE inhibitors

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 19, 2012, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-experience-with-lisinopril-and-other-ace-inhibitors/638288 "2012-10-19T23:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-experience-with-lisinopril-and-other-ace-inhibitors/638288/41 "2012-10-21T14:10:03Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> ETA: And forget about those “complicated risk/benefits to balance that are particular to each patient” – I’ve never known a doctor to go into that kind of detail with me. As far as I’ve been able to tell, that is just a medical fiction you read a lot about. More typical: Doctor prescribed drug. If it kills you, he then tries something else.

Go into detail with _you_? Probably not. (And I think that’s a mistake, but it’s a common one, especially with older doctors; paternalistic medicine - fah!) But when your nurse calls her, she often gets a thoughtful and, yes, personalized response relevant to the patient’s history and current condition. The doctor is thinking a lot more than he is saying to the patient.

Believe me, I’m not a huge fan of most doctors. Some of them are jaded, many of them are arrogant, and 98% of them could use another semester studying how to talk to patients so they actually understand stuff. But very few of them are actually as cavalier as you suggest, in my experiences working with them.

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