Have you ever considered why they say doctors are "Practicing" medicine?

Thank you!!! I woke up this morning to even more pain in my right chest, and then my BF came in to say good morning and get his hugs before he left for his motor cycle ride...he gave me the news that one of my very favorite neighbors has lung cancer. I know the man goes to the doctor and I am sure he complained about problems with his chest, so they figure that he's older and has nothing better to do than complain. It makes me sick... I am in the same situation that many Americans are in, I am low income. The medical help that the government will provide is an assembly line type situation. You get fifteen minutes top, and after 15 seconds you can tell they aren't listening but thinking about their golf game, fishing, dinner or what ever. For fairly decent medical care I have to drive five hours and go to Stanford University Hospital. It's overdue that people need to get proficient medical care in their home towns. I need to make an appointment at Stanford for an ultra sound of my heart. It's a royal pain since I will have to drive up there and back and use up essentially two days for something that something that should have been done here. I enjoy the trip, but I'm not too thrilled about having to make a special trip for it. Plus the doctor doesn't want the idiots here doing the Ultra sound, she wants the people up there to do it. I do research all the diagnosis', and the misdiagnosis'. Most of them have been total misses! Like with everything if they can't figure out what the problem is they have a "catch all" category to make the patient happy(?). For me their favorite is "acid reflux". If I had that condition for all these years my esophagus would be totally destroyed. It's the best catch all they have because I am not 30 any more. I will say that I get the urge to smack the doctors up aside the head with a two by four to get their attention! It's at that point that I am ready to give up totally and just stay away from the quacks and treat myself. It seems like I do a better job than the doctors.