I now know three men who've gone to the doctor, been told there is nothing wrong with them, and then made huge sacrifices to pay for an assortment of private tests to try and prove there is. One of them deferred his university studies to pay for a scan in an MRI machine. Two of them were obviously suffering from fairly severe anxiety and regular panic attacks. As far as I am aware none of the doctors ever suggested to any of them that perhaps that money spent on expensive medical tests could be better spent on therapy.

Also when my grandfather was in the final years of his life he went to the doctor once a week for all sorts of cooked up problems. My grandmother meanwhile ignored all of her symptoms before finally keeling over from stage 4 bowel cancer and appearing to die quite suddenly. None of us knew she was having any symptoms at all.