All too sadly, this is a common refrain. I've read alot of posts from all over the country (some the world) who have unfeeling, unhelpful, or blatantly rude to patients by neuros.

I guess the personalities attracted are just that type?
When you think about it, most neurology is untreatable, deadly,
highly impairing, and mostly limited in what can be done. However, I have been to two conferences in the past years by a very good neurology group that gives CE to doctors and allied health professionals. I have seen some really great doctors at those conferences. (mostly they are in academia tho, but not all).

But then oncologists see many patients die, and they as a rule are not so hard and rude.

It might be a school thing. Doctors get inDOCtrinated in training and historical attitudes are passed along? And it is not a male/female thing. We had a female neuro (now retired) that I knew quite abit about... people were AFRAID of HER! She was one imperious gal!

Perhaps the younger ones will change. There is always hope.

What amazes ME is how many people are not even examined for B12 deficiency or other deficiencies? B12 is well known around the world to cause neuro symptoms, yet many patients are never even tested!