Good point about the endocrinologist. I will say, my general doctor is VERY good about sending patients on to specialists when it is needed. Between the panic disorder, depression, PPD, and now the cancer, I can't even count the number of times the man has probably saved my life. We try to stay healthy and not to see him too often (he has his own health issues, with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, and we want him to stay in practice as long as possible!). But when we do go in, he listens well and responds appropriately. When my mom had breast cancer, she went in complaining of underarm pain... the nurse immediately thought something to do with lymph nodes and breast cancer, and they had her in for mammograms and all the rest before she could catch her breath. And hers was a very mild case, not even enough to stage. They think it was hormone-related, and not a genetic one.

If we had known this man back when my dad was still alive, and having his heart problems, my dad would probably still be alive today. But we had a different doctor, and the in-hospital doctors were idiots (at that particular time).