My family dr (who is amazing and who I "trained" since I started seeing him as soon as he finished residency and I kind of taught him that I know what I'm doing and here's how he can help) has told me several times that his staff will look at my paperwork and comment on how difficult I must be and that he always tells them no, I'm his easiest patient. Makes me smile every time because I like that he is willing to point out to his staff that just because I'm on the meds I'm on and have the diagnoses doesn't mean I'm incapable of taking care of myself or understanding my own health conditions. And when something has come up and his staff has made my life more difficult than necessary because of the dx he has always stood firmly beside me and educated whoever needed educated. I am so thankful to have him (and I have refused to change drs even though he no longer is local because he gets me so well). It's a nice change from so many medical practices. Around here it can be hard to even get a family dr; I didn't have one for a long time because they wouldn't take me while I was on an AP or they refused to believe that they needed to look up that lithium couldn't be taken with ibuproferon or whatever. There was a short time that my pdoc did a few primary care things because I just didn't have anyone except urgent care and urgent care didn't want to deal with me either. (I live in a really rural area and there aren't even pdocs around here who want to take bipolar patients).