I agree. Chances are your "specialist" has to cover an immense amount of ground. Spend a couple weeks, or maybe a couple of months, grinding at pubmed.com (with

I agree. Chances are your "specialist" has to cover an immense amount of ground. Spend a couple weeks, or maybe a couple of months, grinding at pubmed.com (with a good online medical dictionary at hand) and you can certainly outread him or her on a narrow topic that affects you if it's unusual, and have a lot of knowledge at hand he or she doesn't, if you grind at it. Just be humble about all the context for that knowledge that you don't simply don't have, and don't imply they should know everything. There isn't time enough in the day for them to read everything useful to them clinically. Watson and similar A.I. helpers are really needed, and coming. Sadly, a lot of doctors just make shit up out of thin air to help gloss over what they can't be expected to read, which is probably a good time to consider switching doctors.