when you tell them how miserable your day to day experience is you get told things like "well I just take a few Ibuprofen and that works for me."
Why do people (doctors or anyone) think this is an appropriate response?
Yeah it works for you, doc, bc you don't have ME.
Only with ME do we have to hear from normies what "works for them." Or how morally upright they are, in that they push themselves to get out of bed when they feel icky, because "I don't have a choice."
they'd never tell someone with cancer or MS that advil "works."
I could go on for hours about doctor frustration. I haven't even seen a doctor in 5 years but I'm still furious at how they treated me. I really think most (not all) doctors are among the worst of humanity. You have to have a certain level of desire to control others to enter the profession, then medical school really turns most of them into monsters.
This culture worships doctors and they enjoy and exploit that adulation. And I was pre-med as a college freshman. I didn't have the sadistic authoritarian bent that is necessary; I just wanted good money. That wasn't enough so I switched majors.