If all doctors would treat their patients exactly as they would like to be treated themselves, perhaps the patient's stress, fears and pain could be alleviated altogether, or at least substantially. Arthritis affects about 40 million Americans annually. There are now 127 arthritis-related diseases. That is incorrect and misleading. There is much that you can do for yourself, and many avenues of treatment to try to control the pain.
Doctors fall short of their professional standards when they make light of arthritis.
The news magazine and TV shows have staffs of researchers. Doctors cannot be expected to know everything. But they can certainly offer much more help than they presently do. Especially when they charge so much and allot you so little time. In this computer age, they can afford to fill their waiting rooms with printed handouts such as this article.