Letting you know that they aren’t sure and then following up with colleagues and literature. They simply just say, “Try this” to get you out the door. And then it doesn’t work and no one goes back to say, hey it didn’t work. They feel like if you don’t come back that it must have worked.
A good doctor will admit when they don’t know, will then research the problem, schedule a follow up appointment to make suggestions, then schedule a follow up to make sure it’s working. But in our healthcare system that rarely happens