Who do you trust more?
Your
Doctor?
Pharmacist?
Hair Dresser
Attorney?
Maid?
Friend?
OR
Mother-In-Law?
(trusting “myself” is not a choice) 
Update: If you came here earlier after seeing this post in your feed reader, I apologize… the format kept getting all messed up for some reason and I had to delete the post! I’ve been writing posts from either Windows Live Writer or BlogDesk and am so not used to the dashboard of this new version!
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Hmm - great question. For an unbiased opinion on something, I trust my hairdresser. She has nothing to gain or lose from anything she recommends to me so there’s my reasoning. However, I would not trust her for medical advice - that would just be silly. So I trust different people for different things. I don’t trust attorneys or maids much at all though.
I’d have to say my Mum and my GP…
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@teeni: I should have been clear about what I was thinking at the time… we do trust different people with different things but I was thinking more as in who in your opinion is more trustable (is that a word?).
e.g: Do you ever have doubts if your doctor prescribed you the correct medicine or he is out to push the new drugs that he received for free from a drug company he is in contract with… OR in the maid’s case, do you feel comfortable leaving the house keys with her/him while you are at work or on vacation? (or leaving the keys with your MIL in some cases ;))
I’d have to say Friend. Party because I don’t have most of the things/people on the list.
My mother-in-law. I can see no point in her causing any reason for me not to trust her, after all, I’m the father of her grandchildren.
I’m curious, why the question?
What are those special ears listening for?
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@Kim: this is a very nice template and I’ve Mig to thank for recommending and making it work for me
@John: Ah, those ears! Nothing special really - I came in contact with most of these people in just one week and it got interesting at one point.. so asked
@Steven: I’ve had nothing but the best experience having great friends. So yes, they top the list anytime
I would have to say my friend. I have several friends in fact that I would trust more than any of those people. Of course I am a male so that is normal. For a lot of females I don’t know if you can trust your friends. Females and their friends seem to backstab each other a lot.
Oh, by the way, why wasn’t wife or husband included as an option. If it was I would have put that first.
Pearl,
Why not trust in yourself?
Of the above listed choices - one would think you’d trust your best friend.
Ditto Jesse’s last paragraph.
Take care.
Oh Im more likely to trust my family too, of course… I actually did include ’spouse’ as one of the choices but took it off as it seemed to be the most likely picked option. I was thinking more of the community around us that we have to be so dependent upon!
@Jesse: that observation about females unfortunately is very true.. see here: You are invited.. BUT there are always exceptions - I’ve some excellent females as my friends - online and offline
I guess I hit that on the head and I agree it is unforunate.
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Hmm - okay, now that I understand the question correctly, I out of that list, I trust my mother in law the most and then friends but only certain friends. Some friends are good to have fun with but not necessarily to be trusted with important things. I don’t know if those friends should be considered true “friends” or not (perhaps another blog topic of discussion) but you know we all have them and they are more than acquaintances so that term doesn’t apply. Therefore, I still refer to them as friends. I just wouldn’t trust them as much as other friends.
@teeni.. interesting dynamics, isn’t it? Now that this post is a few days old, I was trying to think what had triggered it! Earlier this year I was mad at my GP for his insistence on prescribing a 5-day course of azythromycin instead of 3-day course… I needed a real speedy recovery from flu so I could be with my dad in the hospital but the doctor wouldn’t budge! it was trivial but he gave me a real bad time at which my pharmacist overrode it and gave me a 3 day course of the same med - everything worked out in the end but I lost respect for that darn physician! And other similar scenarios (positive and negative) occurred with people in other ‘roles’ I listed here..
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It depends on what we’re trusting those people for. For instance, I trust my mom with my money but I don’t trust her to keep a secret.
Does that make sense?
But if I had to choose, I’d say one of my blogging friends.
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This is an interesting question, Pearl. Let’s see …
Hair Dresser, Maid, Mother-In-Law: Don’t have those, so can’t comment.
Attorney: Don’t have one either but recognize the need for one and I should hope I would be able to trust them to a large extent. If not the position would be quite futile.
Doctor: I trust Doctors only to some extent. My reservations are for the very reasons, and due to the same kind of experiences you have said triggered this post. My reservations with doctors generally is that while being (hopefully) encyclopaedic, they are rarely creative. The human body almost never acts like the simplified machine they would like us to think it is, and most of them aren’t equiped to deal with the non-textbook cases or looking behind the surface symptoms. The best doctors, on the other hand, can be some of the most creative people there are.
Pharmacist: I currently live in Dubai. In Dubai, no. Back in Bombay. Yes, absolutely … for an educated viewpoint on medicines anyway. The pharmacists back in Bombay are quite remarkable when it comes to their knowledge of what they sell (most of them). In many of the older neighbourhoods in the city, the local pharmacist takes on a role that is part medicine man, part general advisor, and part good listener. It’s quite an interesting phenomenon to observe actually.
Friend: Aah! “friend”. A term that has come to encompass all manner of sins.
Seriously though, each and every one of us has all sorts of friends. Good friends, best friends, long lost friends, hard to stand friends, impossible to get hold of friends, vague aquaintences whom you politely call friends … the variety is endless, so I guess the possible answers are endless.
Thanks for provoking some interesting thoughts and half forgotten memories.
Samir
It all depends on the situation of course, but I don’t trust doctors a great deal. Best friend should be high on the list. Insurance agent is probably the lowest for me, right below mechanic!
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@AnotherMMOblog: that’s funny about moms not being able to keep secrets.
@Samir: trusting attorneys is a tricky one.. so be careful. Any relationship where direct money exchange is involved, can be a bit challenging.. oh, you forgot to include ‘impossible to get rid of friends’ who we might call ‘friends’ just because we want to be polite..;)
@Tim: haha those mechanics! I almost forgot about those, every time I’ve had to take my car in for some minor repair, they surprise me with the bill. Insurance agents of course.. but I haven’t had a bad experience with them yet (crossing fingers)
This is a great question. Some of the people who love me the most would definitely shield me from the truth about certain things, so I would have to go with Doctor. My GP doesn’t hold back. In fact, I kind of hate him. But when it comes to his opinion for important topics in my life, he’s the man to go to.
That’s easy, my pharmacist. Of course, keep in mind we are married, LOL.
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