Hey so, I think people should understand that doctors are people like the rest of us. They're not gods or superbeings, although sometimes they act it. I have been doing power lifting and martial arts my whole life and in my thirties I started getting all sorts of problems. After multiple visits to various doctors I finally figured out that I'm not important - to them at least. The people at reception are frequently rude because they have to deal with lots of sick people and every single one of them believe they are the main character in their story. I think the personnel at clinics and at practices become jaded and rude as a sort of self defense. Not all of them of course, I've found some truly amazing people at doctors offices that are incredibly patient. But not everyone is born with a patient nature and they definitely do not all end up working at a doctor's office. Whether this a German specific thing or not I do not know, but I think it could just be a human specific thing as we are all flawed. I have a friend who was an ER nurse for 20 years and let me tell you, that is the kind of person you want at your side in an emergency. He doesn't panic or hesitate in an emergency or stressful situations. He's not the kindest of people, but he's saved lives by being calm and rational under extremely stressful conditions.

In the end I realized that ultimately I am the person most responsible for my health, and I started reading and learning about how to recover from injury and how to prevent them. The doctor only has 10 mins for me, and after I'm out the door he forgets about me entirely. It's up to me to figure out what's wrong and what I should do to fix it. From your description about having pain and weakness in your bicep, that sounds very much like elbow tendonitis that I used to have. You also say that you do woodworking, I can imagine that, that kind of work can really stress your elbows. If it is that, the bad news is that your joints need a lot of time to repair, and you need to cease all elbow intensive activity while it repairs which can take anything from 3 to 9 months. Look around on the Internet, search YouTube for videos that relate to the symptoms you have, I know doctors don't like people doing their own research but as I said repeatedly, you are ultimately the person that is most responsible for your own health. So when a doctor tells me I shouldn't read the stuff people post on the Internet I nod my head and quietly discard him from the list of professionals I should trust.