On the flip side, if you are better informed you can communicate better with your doctors and possibly get a better outcome. I have a great Mayo doctor team but there are many different specialties which they also don’t know about or have no medical training to handle. I was prescribed gabapentin for my symptoms of neuropathy which were only numbness. After telling my primary care doctor it’s not helping she consulted with her team and and was told the drug does nothing for numbness. Then when diagnosed by a neurologist the next month with idiopathic small fiber neuropathy I got the same from him - nothing available to fix the numbness. Just my humble opinion 🙂