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I would like to state that I find it quite offensive that people here are implying that 1) the physician in question saw the patient, with no intentions of giving him what he wanted, because he would make money from doing so. First off, primary care docs don't make that much money. Secondly, the average primary care doc is way overbooked (because there is a shortage of them) and doesn't need to do dive physicals to make a living. And third, believe it or not, most physicians aren't even very good businessmen, let alone looking at their appointment books for what's profitable and what isn't.
I'd note that he was not a primary care physician, he was a specialist. And while, as the OP pointed out in the post following yours, he did not in fact charge for his services it wasn't a reach to assume he did -- even though he indicated he wasn't interested in assessing the test results fairly in the first place.
Second, saying he needs to find a doctor that isn't afraid of his own shadow is really unfair and unkind. You are asking someone to tell a patient that he will not die as a result of his disease. If the doc is wrong, the patient will die. If the patient dies, the doc can be sued for a tremendous amount of money, based on all the earning power of all the years of life that the patient lost, as well as pain and suffering from the family. In whatever kind of job you do, do you give people 100% guarantees? What's really at risk if you are wrong?
According to the OP - the physician told him he verbally he is fit to dive and has no or at least very little additional risk. The OP also indicated that even though this was a DAN recommended physician, that the Dr. in question indicated he would not sign off on the OP diving on the simple fact that the pre-existing diagnosis existed regardless of what the test showed. The OP indicated that the physician's rational around this was because of liabilities fears. How is that, as described, not overt fear of litigation over patient care? It certainly isn't bravely standing by a diagnosis.
I'm glad to hear the doctor has changed his mind and is willing to sign off on the diving based on yet one more test. But prior to knowing that point, the picture the OP had painted was not of a physician who was putting his medical opinion first.