A hospital isn't the place to be unless you have a specific, acute need to be there. They're looking to stabilize you and get you able to survive outside the h

A hospital isn't the place to be unless you have a specific, acute need to be there. They're looking to stabilize you and get you able to survive outside the hospital, not to solve a mystery. Great place to go if you need it, though. Got internal bleeding? Get that taken care of. The risk of a debilitating or fatal hospital error isn't that high, so absolutely go when the risk of not going is high. TV, though, has trained us to expect to get everything figured out and root causes solved too. Unfortunately, that's just not realistic even if many of the complaints in this thread were solved. There are a lot of nasty rare diseases and conditions, and strange manifestations of conditions, that will still be missed if they have 60 minutes with you instead of 8. You should also realize that doctor quality varies as much as any other skill. SHOP AROUND. I've had better luck with second, third opinions than I have trying to pester an original doctor into changing their mind. There are doctors out there who appreciate it if you bring up a written self-history of the condition, the strange aspects or other things that may or may not be related, what has or hasn't worked so far, etc.