A stab in the dark

Well, with all that build up to me being allergy tested last Thursday, it didn't happen. It may have been because an hour before my appointment with the immunologist I broke out in fiery red hives. So, I'm none the wiser about what's causing my recent inflammations and outbreak of hives and probably won't know until I've kept a diary of everything I've eaten and medicines I've taken just prior to outbreaks over a four month period to present back to the hospital.  I was going to say, and then laughed at the thought of saying it, but will anyway - that my body has a mind of its own, meaning of course that my conscious self has absolutely no control over bodily processes. It might be a good time here to talk about the public health system. An hour before my appointment I thought I'd drop by and talk to one of the nurses in emergency, thinking that perhaps they could give me an anti-histamine or lotion for my itchy spots (forgetting of course that I wasn't supposed to take an anti-histamine prior to testing). I discovered that at 8.30am there was absolutely no-one in emergency and that they had no medicines to help me - their suggestion being that I purchase what I required from the pharmacy! Even though there was no one in emergency, the clinic(s) upstairs where I waited for my appointment was so full that there were no available chairs for waiting patients. I paced, had several glasses of water and attempted to cope with the overheated environment and flickering fluorescent lights and although I'd turned up ten minutes prior to my scheduled appointment, I still had to wait 65 minutes to see anyone! Pointless complaining, but when I did I was advised that I was in the public health system! And, the tone of the staff, please don't start me on that because I'll never finish. So, my questions is always, if staff have an idea of how long it will take for each patient to be seen why can't they give a more accurate appointment time? Is it just that they like making people wait like cattle, ready to be rounded up?  I figure that if I keep a diary then I'm likely to be able to identify which substances I am allergic to without having to go back to the hospital and have an expert tell me. A friend recently said, have you noticed how doctors do very little doctoring these days. Yes, I have noticed, but more than that I've noticed how many times, regardless of which branch of medicine their expertise lay, that they constantly assert 'medicine is not an exact science' and that, in my case, I have 'complex medical issues', which basically means they don't have answers and they're just taking a stab in the dark.