Yes. All I can say in the doctor's defense is that it was a small town, it was in the 90s, my mother was at that menopausal age, and our doctor was a coldhearted chauvinist who thought all women were hysterical idiots. Oh, he was such a jerk...
From the beginning of my adult life choosing my own doctors, that has been my experience more often than not the several times when I had something seriously wrong—at least with the allopathic docs. In the past 20 years after multiple misdiagnoses and lost time and money, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about prevention: diet, exercise, vitamins and minerals, and how to avoid allergens and carcinogens. It's a world of knowledge the M.D.s fight against. I've had to prove the worth of supplementation over and over whenever I've had to move to a new primary physician, usually by going off supplements for six months shortly after hearing their routine denunciations and put-downs, and then showing them how my blood test scores compared with the ones when I was taking a vitamin/mineral regimen.
At the beginning of the plandemic I heard the raft of "safe and effective" propaganda from my doc, which I resisted; and about a year later after not having gotten either the vax or the Covid (thank God), I got pious advice from my doc to take Vitamin D, C and Zinc, which I had already been taking for 20 years—I had submitted a list of all my supplements when meeting my doc for the first time. She got mad when she realized, and didn't want to order a blood check of my latest Vitamin D levels because it was for her like a Democrat being forced to admit Trump had controlled fuel costs and kept us out of war—even though Vit D is not just about resisting Covid, but also resisting breast cancer and a load of other ailments. Then I got mad.
I'm really fed up with my Part D plan and am looking into changing so I can hope to get a better doctor. I really hope the government doesn't try to make the vax mandatory for government patients (Medicare, Obamacare, etc).