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So glad you got a thorough review of your situation sahuaro. It's discouraging to hear of 'dismissive' doctors in the US where there's more or less a freemarket system. It certainly happens in Canada where they are overworked and don't always want to deal with the time-consuming or challenging cases. My impression is that western Europe, by and large, probably has some of the best health care in the western world.

Once you encounter a few dismissive docs, you become skeptical about the whole works, don't you? My experience with my c-spine made me leery of accepting the first opinion on anything, and now we are dealing with our son's nerve injury and I am finding that most doctors' staffs want us to believe that 'he is one of the best in the world'. Hmmmm....