Re: to be expected...
just goes to show ya that if you leave your health and life in the hands of someone that may or may not give a rats arse, well, good luck! Those dudes and dudettes are fine for a diagnosis .MAYBE. When I came back from Kauai with Dengue fever a doc suggest that I may have lupus. Never mind that the symptoms matched, EXACTLY, the progression of dengue fever. And that the aedes mosquito was breeding in a recently flooded area. He seemed to think that the symptoms were a coincidence and that I probably had some atrocious immune disorder for which there would have been most likely no cure but certainly there would have been an arsenal of drugs to keep me in a perfect state of ill-health. Cash cow.
Because there's nothing to prescribe for dengue, no drugs, no surgery. It's not a profitable condition, like, say, an autoimmune disorder. Or diabetes.
Where was I reading recently that it was a goal of the cancer researchers(read: big pharma) to turn some cancers into chronic, long-term illnesses...that, of course being preferable to acute illness and quick progression towards death. Can you imagine a populace walking around with permanent chemo pumps?
BTW, this was in the mainstream press, Newsweek, I think. It was reported though, as good news(we're MANAGING cancer!) rather than as the frightening spectacle that it truly is.
I think that we ought to be collecting contact info for theses irresponsible docs and sending invoices, waddya think, V? Hell, one of our most esteemed posters had Fleschas himself tell her, "tough it out". the detox symptoms, that is.
*pause rant*