You actually get tests? Consider yourself lucky. For me it's just "I don't recognize those symptoms. Symptom A and symptom B are never known to go together so I'll just ignore B, and there are no tests for conditions which cause A, so fuck off lol".
I’ve never had a good experience with an endocrinologist.
Eventually, he started compiling his own bloodwork and measurements in an Excel sheet and could correlate the severity of his symptoms with the red blood cell count in his blood, but was rebuffed every time. After urging from us, he finally asked to be referred to a different specialist, and one of the first things he asked her was: "can my symptoms be explained from this blood work?", and he was very happy and relieved when she said yes.
In all, it took ten years after his first symptoms to be diagnosed with MDS [1]. He's gone now, but at least his last years were better than the ten before that. To this day, we don't know if his bypass surgery was a necessary intervention.
As a bonus, by arrogating the exclusive right to drug prescription and analysis to themselves they can charge what they want.
Man deserves true freedom. To self diagnose if one so desires, to kill oneself through incorrect prescriptions if one so desires.
People foolishly say “If only the doctors would see my illness as an illness” not realizing they exist in a false prison. Doctors should not stop you from treating yourself. You are sovereign over your body. Never let them rule.
To give an example: in my country, 56% of people have already medicated with homeopathy (a known scam for decades). Imagine if they could just buy any other medication, which unlike homeopathy, could have strong secondary effects ? Those 56% people who have "illnesses" with very benign symptoms that for most cases cures itself in a couple days without any drugs (homeopathy is used for anything, common cold, headaches, itches, you name it ...), now they're potentially taking much more dangerous meds. So it's clearly not equivalent as 56% of people definitely don't have "faint-at-the-wheel" symptoms today.
The thing is, none of the rules you mention exist to stop patients from doing anything. Rather, they exist to protect desperate patients from con artists selling (sometimes literally) snake oil "cures".
I'm reminded of accredited investor rules -- which also chafe at times, but are equally essential for protecting people from scams.