An Issue with Studying Your Own Laboratory

I have been thinking about things to ask for interviews with the people in the lab I’m researching and one thing I have been curious about was my PI’s opinion on traditional medicine for treating multiple sclerosis. While I think that her view is a very common view among Western doctors I had thought that her childhood in Southeast Asia might have made her more open to alternative medicines. I am curious about whether she believes in any forms of traditional medicine at all or if she believes in certain treatments for smaller issues such as colds but maybe not treatments for diseases like MS. I am also curious if she knows anything about alternative treatments for MS and whether she based her opinion on alternative treatments for MS on that information or if she just assumed that because the treatments were alternative that they would not work. Though I have these questions rattling around in my head I am honestly a little worried about whether I should ask her. I’m still a little unsure of which direction my paper is heading at this point so I do not know how relevant the questions will be to my final topic and furthermore I am worried of giving the impression that I am trying to undermine her authority or question her stances on this. In medicine there is a very clear hierarchy and even as a premed that I am wary of crossing lines with certain questions. This is probably one of the downsides of choosing my own lab for my ethnography because after the ethnography is over I must retain relationships with the people that I am interviewing and analyzing so I am wary of doing things that might result in some tension.