My experience with doctors been that many are comfortable with a problem as long as they can make a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment. When they can't make a valid diagnosis or when they offer treatment that doesn't work -- and you, the patient, keep coming back and coming back wanting some else that DOES work -- that's when they get uncomfortable. And sometime discharge you, or else treat you so badly but keep taking your $$$$. Rare is the doctor who says, "Gee, I don't know what to do now. Maybe we should try...." I think it's their training -- in spite of it being the 1990's, I think docs are still trained to think of themselves as healing deities: only when they diagnose it correctly and render treatment that "cures" do they feel successful. Not much else gets dealt with. So we PFers must be a constant reminder of their infallibility. Anyway, you are among friends here. So even if you feel bad, at least you don't feel alone.
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