See it's perfectly understandable to not know every single little detail about the field you're trained in. What sucks is how rarely a doctor will admit they're out of their depth and need to read up on your symptoms or disease. From what I gather, this doesn't seem to just be my experience, but a rather common one. Whenever I see this post, I think about the following encounter.

Me: I have autoimmune hyperthyroidism, so, graves disease Doc: nope, graves disease is autoimmune hypOthyroidism, autoimmune hypERthyroidism is hashimotos

Like. These are so understandable to get mixed up when you're a GP. You've probably heard about each of these for like 10 minutes in uni and then studied about them for one test and forgot about them until they were relevant again. I get it, I've been the same about stuff I've learned in uni. Education isn't purely about retaining facts, and it's not humanly possible to retain every single fact you've ever learned.

What doesn't make sense is that I, who has the disease, is often quite debilitated by it, sees a specialist for it every month, and has to understand which symptoms are related to it and why (the thyroid does so many things, it's pretty complex) so I can report them to the specialist would confuse the disease with the opposite one.

So why tf do you default to me being wrong without a seconds thought or doing a 3sec web search? Think for ONE SECOND and you'll realise it doesn't make sense that I'm confusing the disease with another one that I do not have. Ugh.