one of the worst things about being neurodivergent and disabled at the same time is that it's an Easy Way Out for medical professionals -
anything they don't understand (or feel like working on) is the neuro; anything neuro is the thing they don't feel like bothering with - the main point is dodging responsibility, in both practical and legal contexts.
- I'm angry at myself for taking so many years to figure it out - the PA is sent in not to be compassionate or collect information, they're sent in to prevent the MD from having to admit they knew something was wrong and didn't do any tests or pay even pretend-attention to anything their patient reported. The PA is sent in to fish for things that offer plausible deniability to the doctor.
I'm also angry at the Physician's Assistants that tricked me into thinking they had empathy & were about to get to work actually helping in some way.
If you're a PA and your boss asks you to go in to fish for psychiatric "tells" from a patient reporting chronic pain / illness, you've got the burden of guilt. It's big because
"- because deadly dishonesty is not ethically justifiable."