I know just what you mean about having a 'rushed' appointment, where the doctor turns his/her back on you.
Maybe it's too early to wish for this, but wouldn't it be great if the new fMRI technique would be the key to getting your doctor to open up and talk about our problem. Maybe then, you'd get some straight talk, instead of "dancing around the issue."
Citation: Andreas Lienemann, MD, Dorothee Sprenger, MD, Heinrich Otto Steitz, MD, Matthias Korell, MD and Maximillian Reiser, MD Radiology 2000 ;217:412-425, Detection and Mapping of Intraabdominal Adhesions by Using Functional Cine MR Imaging: Preliminary Results
Sonja Buhmann-Kirchhoff, Reinhold Lang, Chlodwig Kirchhoff, Heinrich Otto Steitz, Karl Walter Jauch, Maximilian Reiser and Andreas Lienemann, European Radiology, June 2008, Functional cine MR Imaging for the Detection and Mapping of Intraabdominal Adhesions: Method and Surgical Correlation,
Yours,
-- Mark in Seattle