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One thing I've learned from living in California with a family full of people with health issues: If you want your doctor to do something, you have to take matters into your own hands. Not by ignoring the doctor and finding alternative remedies, but by being in constant contact. Demand more tests. Force your doctor to help you. If you feel like the doctor is ignoring you, it's probably because you haven't given him the right kind of information to help him actually inform his diagnosis. Have you tried keeping a diary of what you eat and how your stools come out?

Yes, a good doctor will put forward the effort to ask the right questions, to follow up, to figure out the problem. But given that you're probably going to a cheap clinic where the doctors are overworked and overloaded, you can make a mediocre doctor do good work.