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[Mr. Flibble]

there are many good doctors out there. I now know five personally.

But there are many more bad ones, who simply look up their book and do "medicine by numbers". They are otherwise known as charlatans or QUACKS and I've been misdiagnosed many times because of them. (one doc decided my symptoms were merely manifestations of ANXIETY when a simple blood test would have shown a B12 deficiency, of which anxiety and other problems are created or made worse BY the deficiency. And if not treated in time, nerve damage caused by B12 deficiency is irreversible. Don't doctors take a class on this sort of thing? One would think it's mandatory, the first thing ANY doctor should do is run a COMPLETE vitamin/mineral test to make sure everything is within normal ranges and that if one number is off, check anything related to that and look for anomalies or near-abnormal levels. Sounds like common sense to me.)

True, maybe I was harsh in my assertion. But not all people have the greatest of times with their doctor. But from stories my friends and acquaintances and I share, I'm hardly alone with getting 2nd rate treatment, misdiagnoses, and so on.