I think you just hit with your doctor the checkbox approach to stroke rehab which some other survivors have described. The medical staff really doesn't listen to you, they want to just make you fall into one of their checkboxes. If they listen to you they would have to think and do some unplanned work. A book that describes why you shouldn't trust doctors is:
Hippocrates' shadow : secrets from the house of medicine / David H. Newman. Good for realizing that doctors do not know everything.
And from Toni, 'But there's more, before I started to leave he said gesturing to my then spastically bent right arm, "there's what indicates your need for the zocor". And dare I say it, he sounded a little smug. What a crock of crap. My having had a stroke does not in and of itself indicate a need for statin drugs. I sense a simplistic means for expeditiously dismissing me.'
If its Tuesday, you must be all better, if its Wednesday, time to be discharged.
And this is why I arrogantly think I know more than my doctors. It doesn't take much.
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