Pediatricians and information overload

Do you feel like pediatricians or specialists give you too much information? It's not unusual for parents of children with special needs to feel overwhelmed by the rattling off of tests and treatments and procedures by medical professionals in the wake of a child's health crisis. But it's also not unusual for parents in those situations to feel like doctors aren't telling them everything, or giving them enough choices, or giving voice to alternative interpretations and treatments. So I'm not quite sure what to make of a study published in the journal Ambulatory Pediatrics indicating that when pediatricians mention more than nine "health and wellness topics" during the course of an examination, parents questioned a month later can't recall what was discussed. If research like this encourages pediatricians to think about how they present information to parents and find better ways to accomplish it, then hooray for that. If it encourages them to just stop talking because those stupid parents aren't going to get it anyway, then ... not so much.