I'm not at all surprised at this based on my friends and I's experience with the medical profession. If we go in for anything more subtle than a broken leg, it'

I'm not at all surprised at this based on my friends and I's experience with the medical profession. If we go in for anything more subtle than a broken leg, it's very difficult to get a busy doctor to pay attention to what you're telling them or send you for testing. It becomes so frustrating that you end up turning to the internet and trying things like food cures, just because it's all you can do. I'm gradually learning to be more assertive with the doctor, even going so far as to take my mom along for moral support (pretty embarrassed about that but sometimes that's what it takes). But I've given up plenty of times in the past when I had various kinds of muscle and tendon injuries that made it difficult to work. I usually ended up self treating with stretches, ice, expensive trips to physiotherapists and chiros, just on the wild guess that maybe they might be able to help when my doctor refuses to. I have no doubt that if I had any weird cancer-like symptoms I'd try to self-treat for a good long time before I bothered taking a day off work to see a doctor. Doctors suck.