[jcadam]

Develop a chronic illness and you will quickly lose faith in modern medicine.

Especially if you have good insurance, you'll get to experience getting passed around from specialist to specialist who will take great joy in milking you and your insurance company for unnecessary and pointless tests.

[commandlinefan]

Well, the old quote "never attribute to malice what can equally be explained by stupidity" may, while sort of flippant in this case, be appropriate. You say that the doctors "take great joy in milking you" and while it's possible that that's what's going on (malice) I think it's a lot more believable that they're honestly just having trouble figuring out what's wrong with you ('stupidity' for lack of a more complimentary term), and have to exhaust all the possibilities. I guess I'm just sort of sensitive to those sorts of accusations because I've been working as a computer programmer my whole life and am used to, when I need to do some actual research to diagnose a problem, being myself accused of "dragging my feet" for some inexplicable reason - as if I did, in fact, know immediately off the top of my head exactly how to fix the problem at hand, but was for some reason refusing to provide it.

[walshemj]

Why once a chronic illness is diagnosed there is an accepted way of treating it - this is from my experience in the UK.