Comment by theshackleford

Many of these things apply to health conditions in general, and some of it's advice specialists themselves gave me. "Do not trust a general practitioner to have the apptitude to manage your multitude of conditions, you hear people say you practice being a doctor using google? You absolutely should.

After what i've been through, I think it's good advice for everyone.

Source: Just a number of issues that ultimately led to outcomes being worse than they could have been otherwise:

"You're too young for cancer (at 25)."

Had cancer in my bowels. Caught very early as I kept pushing and pushing (heh, pushing).

"Your body hurts and you're having problems working because you're stressed from work"

Reality, incomplete spinal cord injury from severe cervical myelopathy. A wrong movement, fall etc could have seen me in a wheelchair at basically any moment. As it is I live with life long side effects I may not have needed too, had someone done the needful earlier.