All I want out of a physician is an expert consultant. I have goals for where I want my health to be, and I could use advice on how to get there that doesn't require me to spend so much time separating the wheat from the chaff of google results. This could be handled over email most of the time. But most doctors I've met don't seem to see themselves in this role. They seem to think their job is to take measurements and tell me how far out of spec I am. Worse yet, most of them believe they are infallible. Its fine if you're making educated guesses doc, just don't act so damn confident about them and dismiss the negative results.

Maybe I've had bad luck in doctors. It's not like I get a choice in them, the way the US system works. Three times in my life I have had severe chronic problems that were ultimately solved by my own inexpert research and experimentation or by the inexpert observations of a casual observer. These days I only bother to go to a doctor after I have a good suspicion of what's wrong already, like if I broke a bone or something.