Thanks Lucky,

It's nice to know a medical professional will be more interested in caring than their own careers. Try to stay that way, despite the inevitable setbacks of not being able to help some people.

Blaming the patient can be tempting and it's happened to me a lot, being one of the initial sufferers of Fibromyalgia before docs thought it was 'real.' It really was devastating to be 'written off' as it being just in my head. Let me tell you......my head certainly contributed to it, but the pain is terrible real.

I think docs sort of 'give up' and place boundaries on people they can't seem to help, they sort of abandon them emotionally, when sometimes being there emotionally is the best thing they could have ever possibly done.
Compassion is the best and most important quality in a doc.