Same here my Dr retired year before last, I've been dealing with nurse practitioners since except for one time when my Dr came back to his office to help out. It's like a therapist man, you developed a relationship with this Dr he knows things that may not be in his notes. It sucks I feel what your going through. I've seen 4 different practitioners in the last 6 Dr appointments. All of them completely different and had conflicting opinions on my health care. It pisses me off.
Yup my surgeon is awesome. I knew that going into surgery, did my research on him found out he was in the Air Force etc, lol So I was going to bring him an expensive cigar before my surgery, but decided I better wait until my follow up just to be safe lmao I found out through a friend who's father use to see him that he likes expensive cigars from time to time.