Like so many of you, I have been to more docs than I can recall. Would hesitate to call any of them idiots. Rather, I think that what happens is that many of them see a gray-haired person on Medicare and just turn off the "let's take a deeper dive into your problem". I have been blessed to have had a PM doc who was the exception. He truly cared about me and went the extra mile to look for solutions. Also, I had a very good CRNP who should have had the title "Doctor". In fact in the twenty plus years of going to the practice, I saw the doctor just once. Here in our new city, I have had a difficult time finding any docs who are willing to look further into finding solutions to my chronic pain. The office of my current PM has 16 exam rooms. 16! Patients are shuffled in and out faster than a speeding bullet. I guess this is what our current health care system has done for us.