For about 15 years now, I've been teaching other doctors about running injuries. Every time I speak in a medical conference now, I ask doctors why they don't like treating runners. 

I know some runners are actually surprised to hear this, but if you are a runner, yourself, and you've been to the doctor and you've had some doctor look at your intake form or some nurse look at your intake form, and said something like, 

“Do you really run that much?”

“Why do you exercise so much?” 

“Are you obsessed?” 

“Are you some kind of exercise addict?””

Well if you've heard any of these things, you probably understand not all doctors like to see runners. 

But when I am at medical conferences, I always ask doctors, “Why is it that you guys don't want to treat runners? What's your problem with them? Why is it that you think it's difficult to treat them? Do you think they're unreasonable? What is it?”

Today on the Doc On the Run Podcast, we're talking about the top 3 reasons doctors hate treating runners.