AllanC penned: "Most informed and enlightened physicians are in favor of whatever brings positive results in the treatment of illness. They are intelligent enough to realize that there is far more to medicine than the treatments recommended by the AMA."

The problem is not that they do not exist, the problem I have run into is finding them.

I have run across more of the kind of Doc that tells me CFID's is "all in my head" or pawn it off on depression than I have had those willing to deal with it as a real illness. From all I have heard from those suffering MS, and those that have loved ones who suffer with it, their experience can be similar. When accepted treatments fail, many (if not most) Docs throw up their hands and say "I've done all I can". Otherwise, what accounts for the fact that many MS sufferers never hear of bee sting therapy or other non-"traditional" ("traditional" meaning accepted by the general medical community) unless it is through someone other than their primary Physician?

Many Docs, I can tell you, have dissed my herbal remedies too. All I can say is that, my herbal remedies have done far more to help me than what typical American medicine has done.

For more on the "Doctor as God" syndrome that seems fairly prevalent in the US, I recommend reading "Confessions of a Medical Heritic" by Dr. (something) Mendelsohn.

If anyone has any suggestions for Doctors who will not send me away with a "nothings wrong with you" diagnosis for ailments I have suffered for nearly 20 years, or who will not say, "Oh, somethings wrong with you, I just can't help you", I'd be happy to try them out (so long as the commute isn't California or the like). :D