Yeah I can confirm that as well. My wife for many years has been complaining of bone and joint pain, strange rashes, and other odd symptoms suggestive of an au

Yeah I can confirm that as well. My wife for many years has been complaining of bone and joint pain, strange rashes, and other odd symptoms suggestive of an auto-immune condition. I kept telling her to ask her doctor for at minimum an ANA to see if it comes back with anything. Her doctor kept brushing it off as "stress and anxiety" - something I've learned incompetent medical professionals throw around without ever gathering a mental history or referring the patient to a psychologist - and basically refused to do further tests. The GP basically wrote her off as a hypochondriac with zero evidence; no tests, no referrals to a mental health provider, no looking back at her history, nothing. Doesn't "give a whiff of a shit" is spot on. I finally convinced my wife to see another GP. This one definitely fits the bill of "extraordinarily competent and dedicated" and on that first visit the new GP ordered an auto-immune panel. Well well well, she came back with high ANA and Rheumatoid Factor markers. She's been seeing a rheumatologist since then who has been evaluating her for rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. EDIT: this is not my only anecdotal experience either. There's so many of them. For myself: over many years I was slowly losing sensation from the neck down along with a myriad of other neurological issues that were strange but had no specific point of origin. Got several MRIs all of which came back inconclusive. About 3-4 years later the problem suddenly progressed to me running into walls, losing significant sense of sensation, and losing my balance. I visited an orthopedic clinic and got a second set of MRIs (brain and neck), but this time I asked for a CD so I could review the material myself. The radiologist reported no issues, but I used radiopedia and medical journals to study and cross-reference normal/abnormal MRIs with mine. I found an area between C5-C7 on my neck with significant spinal cord compression. The orthopedic doc read off my radiology report and said "your results were normal". I ended up begging her to go through the MRI stack with me just to see it with her own eyes. She reluctantly agreed. We get to the C5-C7 section and she pauses, says "I'll be right back, I need to consult with one of our surgeons" and boom, I was scheduled for surgery for the next month. Unfortunately I didn't make it a month. Over the next week things deteriorated quickly and I ended up having emergency surgery.