Due to some health issues, I've connected with physicians/chemists/researchers. Reading case studies and medical research became a bit of a hobby. As time passed by I learned more medical terms and about health/medicine in general.
I've met many physicians for various issues 40+, and been to Mayo and other top clinics. These were often doctors interested in their niche and would reference information from very recent papers.
On the other hand, most physicians are quite bad, and appear uninterested in furthering their knowledge. Either through burn out or laziness? I don't know. I have met doctors who are clearly WRONG, and they were wrong because they accepted a book from 1998(example) as truth, they would be right years ago.
Medicine is an ever evolving science. I don't want to be treated like I am living in 1998. I don't want to be dismissed because I look "normal".
The amount of pushing to get tests done I've had to do is absolutely crazy. Maybe this warrants writing a book.
I even had a sports injury many years ago, that doctors referred to as "chronic pain", because they couldn't see anything wrong on tests and it lasted months. I've researched it, I've found a radiologist who created a specific protocol on how to set up an MRI machine to pick up the injury. I went to an MRI place with a protocol, gave it to them, they took it but ignored it and performed a regular MRI. No injury picked up. I then met a surgeon 2000 miles away who was passionate about medicine and operated on people with similar presentation. He inspected my abdomen and I was on a surgery table 3 hours later. I had images of massive muscle tears I've had in my abdomen.
If I had accepted opinion of like 6 doctors I saw, I would be living in pain today.
I ran into a similar issue with 4 ulcers. A doctor rubbed my belly and said it was a virus. I already knew what it was. I wanted a camera and optimally a laser to clean things up so I could finish repairing them with a few protease, nutrients, mastic gum in a series of manual procedures but the wounds were uneven and not healing correctly. I went to 5 different facilities including one that misrepresented themselves as GI doctors and then turned out to be for gunshot wounds and still happily took my money and then acted like I was the idiot for going there. A GI doctor was only able to find 2 of them and said they were "unremarkable" which was a load of crap. In hind sight my mistake was taking a time slot on a late Friday afternoon.
I ended up just taking the time for the cellular turnover rate of the gut in combination with my hackish techniques to heal them. I was able to heal 3 out of 4 of them. One is in a tricky spot and is only about 85% healed. The last one only hurts if I use digestive enzymes. Similar to you I would still be in great pain today if I had not performed my own procedures.
Its not doctors who do testing.
I was several times in situation, when doctor with early ChatGPT confidence prescribed some treatment, and I googled actual NIH study at home and seen very different conclusions to what doctor told me.
Doctors can confidently hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable.
Or in other words, what any medical expert in the field should have done...
https://www.aamc.org/news/doctor-saved-his-own-life-now-he-s...
For real the enhanced autocorrect just cured a rare blood disorder wow! I bet father clippy is proud!!! The idea that the AI is connecting dots that previously did not exist is pure manipulation.
