[MonikaT]

As far as the breathing difficulty, it’s called dyspnea.

Dyspnea is just a fancy Latin word used by doctors, and it means shortness of breath. It can be brought on by all kinds of things--COPD, allergies, asthma, exertion, etc. It is a symptom of something bigger. The key is to find the cause, not just treat the symptom, though treating the symptom is important because it can be serious when you can't seem to catch your breath.

Yeah... A lot of doctors today seem to think their job done after just treating the symptom. But that's only the first, emergency, step. After that you've gotta figure out what's behind the symptom and treat that as well. And if that, too, is only a symptom...

Many doctors today are either stupid and therefore negligent or wontonly negligent in an attempt to "retain" their "customer". Sometimes I have a hard time trying to figure out which.

Just keep in mind half of all doctors graduated in the lower half of their graduating class. However, there are other issues at play such as insurance providers that refuse to pay for a better level of care because it isn't profitable and the fact that medicine is a business so the more customers a doctor sees in a day, the more profit s/he makes. Then there are doctors like mine who can't see the forest for the trees. He's so hung up on all the symptoms, each of which is a treatable medical condition with all kinds of expensive medications and frequent, expensive blood tests, that he can't see there is an underlying condition that can cause every one of my symptoms and that is easily treatable with a comparatively cheap medication. Sadly, this is the fourth medical professional in two years who can't see it or get it right, and I'm ready to give up.