This has certainly rung true in my experience, which is interesting because I've had people on several other health-related forums tell me to prepare a list of symptoms. It's completely not fair to brush me off like that when I'm reporting some pretty alarming issues. I always say I'm going to take my time and explain everything and explain how I really need somebody to listen to me because my life is a living hell right now because of all of this, but then I go into the examining room, and they rush me. My (now former) neurologist doesn't even know about a good half of my symptoms because I never had a chance to tell him about them. This is probably why the acupuncturist I'm seeing was so appealing to me even though I'm not convinced anything he's doing is ever going to have any benefits (he said it will take months, so I've basically decided to stick with his protocol until the end of the year). He gave me a form to fill out and told me to mention EVERY symptom I've ever had, and then he took the time to sit with me and go through all of them for at least an hour. And he didn't accuse me of making stuff up in my head at the end of it!