Does anyone else's doctor or nurse treat them as "an interesting specimen"? What about people in general?

Whenever I go into my doctor's office, I always get asked about which medications I'm on, followed by the obligatory, "What for?"

When I tell them I'm bipolar, they stop for a second. "Ah, alright. Bipolar..." they say. Then they give me this intrigued but unsure look while they look me up in their system. "So, how do these medications make you feel? What have you noticed?"

The manner in which they ask their questions makes me think they're personally curious, even though I know they have to enter this sort of information in their system. I don't think they're "afraid" of me per se, but I think they're very uneducated about bipolar disorder, so they sort of walk on egg shells around me. Their tone of voice goes from normal sounding to very cautious but soothing.

It doesn't really bother me; it's just something I've noticed. I wonder if any of you could relate.