Sure is. Many years ago, I jokingly dubbed it "guinea pig complex" - being bounced from specialist to specialist, therapy to therapy, medication to medication.... I figured I wasn't the first, so I googled it, and sure enough, others had coined similar terms. It's harder to find them now; when you google "guinea pig complex", you get a lot of hits of people building elaborate habitats for their pet cavies....

Somewhere in that process, a couple of doctors confided/confessed that with research having become so much easier via the web, many patients now know more about their conditions than the doctors do. We may have one to a handful of medical issues, and time to put into learning about them, while the doctors have dozens to hundreds of conditions to learn about, hundreds of patients to treat, and very little time to devote to individual patients.

The upside to this is that by being pro-active, we can actually get better care than before, because we can better help our doctors help us (help ourselves).

Doc