Lynda specifically calls out family doctors for attributing symptoms to mental health causes without doing adequate investigation.

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You need to be aware. I mean most of the nurses were excellent. I never really had a problem with nurses. In fact, a lot of them went, “Yeah, I hear ya.” Like they’ve experienced things like that. So, never any problem, but with doctors, yes. Family doctors more than anybody. … sometimes it’s not about changing their attitude with regards to how they treat you as in like you know you’ve got a lot of professional doctors out there who are pretty high on the pedestal and they’ve got this attitude about them or whatever. But you know what, they know their stuff. But so many of them – it’s the bypassing thing. Oh, it’s stress. Oh, it’s this. I bet you if it was a man they’d have a full workup done. My doctor, I have a new doctor now, my family doctor. And he listens to me because I ended up in the hospital lots of times and he ended up showing up and go, “What’s going on.” You know. And he would also phone the transplant team. But my other doctor and the doctors I had before that in the lower mainland, certainly difficult you know. So, I think that those people need to, to listen to patients and hear them. And hear that there’s a difference between men and women, huge difference.

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