I respected every single doctor I saw in the last 23yrs who told me sh/e didn't know enough about this illness to help me but ruled out all the obvious things.
I also respect the few doctors I saw in the last 3yrs, at least the ones who are making sure that I don't have or don't develop another serious condition.
What makes me mad is the status quo that we as PWME have to go up "against", in other words how are we going to get better when there are no doctors, or close to none (about 12 in the 50 United States) that is knowledgeable enough to try to help us?
That's why I remain vigilant and skeptic towards any doctor and many of the so called diagnoses, such as fibromyalgia, since IMHO, in many cases, they are just a label for a symptom, albeit an important and very debilitating one, that has no well proven scientific background.
My heroes are the Dr. Montoyas and the Prof. Davis (both @ Stanford), because they are brave enough to say that the medical/scientific community will have to formally apologize for what they haven't done for us and they emphasize the cardinal fact that no real clinician/researcher should be afraid, at this time, to learn, listen, study and practice in the ME/CFS field.