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The stuff about doctors in the UK is quite amusing.<p>I actually look after a relative who has similar but not identical issue. Like OP, the diagnosis is madness and advice to see a clinical psychologist (ironically, this person was a psychologist themselves). Like OP, the doctor is actually actively intervening to prevent a second opinion from a neurologist (which is slightly redundant as the conclusion will most likely be the same...although sometimes you get lucky).<p>In what is probably not a massive coincidence, my relative probably saw the same people as OP (I live in the Edinburgh area). This unit got handed a massive stack of cash recently...BMWs all round for the boys.<p>Recently, as my relative&#x27;s condition has deteriorated, I think about this a lot (they are basically a parent to me).<p>Doctors in the UK are, by and large, arrogant. If you want to know if someone is a doctor in the UK, talk to them...they will tell you within the first ten seconds...multiple times. Most outside primary care seem to actively dislike patients. I know multiple people who became doctors...none did anything for anyone but themselves (amazing given that almost everyone at my school was strongly encouraged to do charity work). I went to a university with a huge, well-regarded medical school...nothing that I experienced at university altered this view. There is something fundamentally, one could even say psychologically, wrong with the kind of person who becomes a doctor in the UK.<p>But there is also something utterly wrong with the incentives: the NHS has no capacity for care outside a narrow boundary. They have &quot;policy&quot; in areas where this makes no sense. In this area, there is a clear medical consensus that these issues aren&#x27;t psychological...outside the UK. Inside, there is &quot;policy&quot;...if you have any of these problems (fibro&#x2F;CFS&#x2F;ME) you are mad. Say what you will about the US healthcare system but in these cases, i.e. infrequent, then you actually get a decent result, doctors are paying attention to research, and they are actually willing to consider the possibility that you aren&#x27;t &quot;putting it on&quot;.<p>The only exception is MS...unf, as it is often clear where the boundary lies between MS and some of the other things in this group, this is a largely redundant distinction to everyone but the doctors.