So, because that one thing happened to you, Annie, that must mean that ALL older doctors are egomaniacs and ALL young doctors are brilliant?Overgeneralize much?

Just want to warn you that in reality it is the mature doctors that suffer more from dangerous egomania. I have experience in this & know what I'm talking about. As a teen I had extraordinary pain in one of my joints and because my father knew a lot of the top doctors I had the "privilage" of meeting with them. They all told me the same thing: That there was nothing wrong with me and so the pain must be psychological. That's right they called me crazy.- Because they had so much experience they thought they knew EVERYTHING & if they didn't see the problem the only possibility of course was that I was making it up. As a last resort I went to see a random doctor- I went to him because he was near enough to me that it wouldn't hurt so much to walk to him. The guy basically just graduated from his medical residency. He didn't know what it was at first, but he was the first guy not to say I was lieing or crazy. He kept searching for an answer for 2 weeks & he got back to me with an answer: Synovial Sarcoma. A rare cancer that attacks a joint & has a low survival rate due to the fact that it's rare & doctor's often miss it. I took this young doctor's findings to one of the docs that called me crazy who also was the doctor a pro basketball team & he told me not to listen to this doctor w/ practically no experience and to just do nothing because "nothing" was wrong with me. Well thank goodness I didn't listen to the top docs. I had surgery anyway and the cancer was confirmed! In reality young doctors don't suffer from "the god complex" that so many doctors are known to suffer from. They have not yet been jaded into thinking that they have all the answers. There's no substitute for experience when it comes to performing surgeries & stuff, but when it comes to diagnosing sometimes it helps to go to someone younger whose more openminded to discovery.