I think people like to role-play doing the job before it was professionalized because then it sounds less like you're a cog in a machine.
In the past few years I've got the impression that when I go to a doctor with a slightly unusual symptom, they are very much lost. It seems the average GP learned a whole lot at University, and 20 years later treats the same 50 common things (colds, cuts, high blood pressure, you name it) and doesn't really remember all the quirky and exciting stuff from uni.
I'd guess that the more academic the education is, the more likely you fall into that pattern.
The site nearly every MD in the US uses is called UpToDate:
https://www.uptodate.com/login
It's not really for laypeople, so you can't poke around in there (check your alumni benefits though, many associations have subscriptions). But, to give you an idea, the site is pretty much a diagnostician. You can just plug in symptoms, patient history and demographics, and it'll give you nearly everything that you need to know. Lots of best practices, research papers, summary papers, testimonials, etc. It's effectively an AI for MDs, and it's good.
What I'm trying to say is that your first instinct is correct: The MDs that you're going to really are in fact idiots that can't even be arsed to use a web form.
Some Doctors are checked out/lazy/make assumptions, just like everyone else.
Better not to do it in front of patients though. Many will assume you're incompetent if they see you doing it. Few will understand that you are a fallible human being who's using every possible resource to make up for it.
Good luck finding a MD that actually wants you to be healthy and drug free - the system is setup to give you a prescription and hope that it works; doctors around me won't even broach the subject of suggesting you lose some weight or get more exercise or even just eat more healthy food - they just write a prescription to deal with the adverse affects of your poor lifestyle.
Then there are the patients who will destroy you on social media when you tell them to take some responsibility because that's "intolerance" of their morbid obesity. Plenty of people out there looking for easy pill solutions to everything.
I know Dr's learn a lot throughout their career, but after they get into a practice they just don't have the time they did in medical school (or won't spend the time), and the trajectory flattens.
Go to a doctor from a hospital with acclaimed primary care, like University of Washington Medicine. Ranked #1: https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-medical-sch...
Can you give an example of a slightly unusual symptom that stumps doctors?
of treating the most comments stuff and being lost? Would have thought the opposite, no, or am I misunderstanding
Also, I don't think there's a platonic ideal of a software developer - there's a lot of mid-40s devs who have children and whose platonic ideal is a well-paying job with good work-life balance.
I'm not paid boatloads of money for 99% of my work, i'm paid boatloads of money for the 1% of the time I have to do something very impactful. If using the right data structure for your 'cancel prime membership button' means a .1% server load reduction and 1% higher reliability, it's worth paying Joe Blow Amazon SDE 300k a year.
It's the same with Doctors. Most of the time they say "take two Tylenol and call me in the morning". Or maybe they're stitching someone up in the ER and they're doing just as good of a job as a nurse. But once and a while they save lives with their decision making.
I used to really enjoy this blog from this american medical student. This guy seriously hated medical school and the worst part is I don't even blame him.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101218031844/http://www.medsch...
True, if one apply most of the lessons in the article (e.g. "Nobody gives a f** about your clean code") to a well-established open source project, the maintainers will grind you to death.
Any NGO worker or nonprofit probably has this. Nurses, doctors, and veterinarians also.