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This meme is about when you’ve read the scientific literature surrounding your illness but your GP hasn’t. Of course, it is not the GP’s fault as they can’t know about every illness, but rather a problem with how our healthcare system makes GP’s instead of specialists survey chronic illnesz.
That's their job, essentially they are the front door to the world of medicine, and a lot of their work revolves around connecting you with someone who can help.
A good GP, when presented with symptoms and evidence of something they don't know much about, will say, "Huh. Let me have a look at some stuff", and then they will go check things out.
If things match up then they will likely say, "Ok, let's try X" , or alternatively, "I know someone who is better suited to deal with this", and hand you off. They might say, "Perhaps it's this other thing", which might piss off some long term sufferers of particular illnesses, but I'd prefer a no stone unturned approach to things than blanket dismissal.