Doctors who are interested in you as a patient seem to be long gone. I know there are time pressures put on them among other things that make their jobs difficult, but the distinct lack of curiousity about me as a patient is very obvious. My husband is 64. When he was a small child he was regularly ill with pneumonia. His doctor actually made a house call (this would have been more than fifty years ago). When his daughter was a child she had an illness her pediatrician was trying to diagnose. My husband said the pediatrician spent a considerable amount of time researching her symptoms and treatments and discussed his findings over a couple of meetings with my husband. Our experience with our son's pediatrician was nothing like that when my son developed an intestinal issue, and it has been nothing like that for me either (and that includes a MD and a NMD).