> And on top of that, it seems like there are quite a few doctors who will go even farther into denial, and default to assuming a patient's pain isn't real, wh

> And on top of that, it seems like there are quite a few doctors who will go even farther into denial, and default to assuming a patient's pain isn't real, when their usual diagnostic tools fail to find a problem. 100%. I had a neurologist tell me (while my wife was in a hospital bed, unable to move) that the tests he had done proved that there was nothing wrong with her. I said "you mean the tests don't show any possible issues?" and he said "no, they prove that nothing's wrong. I don't know why she's choosing to act like this". After that, we never went back to hospital no matter how bad her symptoms got - we just dealt with it at home, which was terrifying. At one point she almost drowned in the bath. I have some sympathy for him (in hindsight - at the time I was full of white-hot rage). He can't know the sort of person my wife is, and how ludicrous the idea of her faking an illness is.