The Day I Lost Faith in our Medical System

It was last Tuesday, the day I went in for a routine check-up so I could get two prescriptions refilled.

I told the doctor that I had tapered off and then discontinued taking a third
medication. I told him of some of the side effects I was experience
from the withdrawal.

He proceeded to discount every side effect as unrelated to the medication withdrawal. For example, he blamed the dizziness
I was experiencing on a a blockage of the inner ear. He ordered a test
performed. The test result? My ears are perfectly fine. He dismissed
the other withdrawal side effects as the return of problems that caused me to
begin taking the medication.

No.

I was expecting this to some degree. Only, not to the level that occurred at the doctor's office.

So, this is what I've secretly come to know and now proclaim from the rooftops: DOCTORS DON'T KNOW S***.