Trick question?

I'd put my money on epically shameful...based soley on my own personal experience. There are good docs out there and people who are doing good work...but I've run into far too many doctors who seem like they could care less about RSD and won't even be bothered to be correctly educated about it when confronted with a case.

I have heard things like "RSD doesn't spread" and "RSD only occurs in a hand or foot not anywhere else" and I wonder where these doctors get this stuff? Even my fairly basic attempts at research on the internet pull up nothing that says stuff like this. It's not like I see different sources with contradicting opinions on these things...across the board it seems accepted that RSD DOES spread and you can have it anywhere/everywhere. So where are they getting their information? Seems to me like they have only a very very basic knowledge of the fact that RSD EXISTS but are just pulling the other stuff out of their rear ends. And who, as a patient newly diagnosed with this monster is going to know any better?

Don't get me wrong...this is a very complicated disorder that is NOT very well understood...but what gets me are the docs and members of the medical community who aren't even willing to educate themselves about the condition period when confronted with a patient who has this condition. I don't mind so much if the doctor doesn't know all about at the get go...I would imagine there are just too many diseases and conditions out there for them to know everything about all of them. But for doctors to give patients bad information or to just pawn them off on someone else because they don't feel like doing their homework? Shameful...