I feel your response to ask my doctor is assuming a lot. I don't know why there's still the myth of the caring family doctor. But it needs to stop being assumed. I can see the appeal but it just isn't in touch with reality. If I could make an appointment with a doctor and they actually helped, I wouldn't be here.

The real experience of medical care for not-wealthy people is a stressed out doctor who double books appointments, spends most of their five minutes in the room looking at a chart because they can't remember who you are, and demands only one issue be addressed per visit but never listens to all the symptoms so they know what is related and what isn't. And gets annoyed if you make more than 3 visits a year. So nothing ever gets solved if you have anything more complicated than the flu.

Also there are some other doctors at the same health center but my old doctor is in charge of them so that's very suspect - doctors do share unofficial info on patients and I worry I've been labeled as 'difficult' based on how they talk to me. I have had my faith in the medical system broken repeatedly. But I don't have a reasonable choice. It's medicine or falling into snake oil sellers. I'm close to giving up on all treatment and haven't only because I made a promise to try everything I could.

Besides, I never have a full selection of doctors since I'm FtM. And it's early January so booked for the next few months since people have insurance for the new year.