AMEs: Does the Duty of Care stop here?

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Thank you for your reply.

Its kind-of a complex issue re: I had symptoms approx 13-14 years ago but I've been fine since.

The class 2 AME was a different Dr. (sorry if I didnt' make this clear initially that I have had 2 AME's one for class 1, one for class 2). Class 2 AME was money-hungry (tried to up the price of medical between that quoted on e-mail and on the day, offered assistance with my appeal only in exchange for extortionate rates (as said £175 per hour) that I never actually took him up on and he didn't send my form to the CAA for 6-7 weeks as he went on an adventure holiday (but claimed that he had!). I just remember thinking I got unlucky with this guy, lets keep it polite, but I never really perceived him as someone who had my back and he won't be someone who's services I'll be using again or who I'd ever recommend. But I didn't see the point in communicating any of this to him so...

.....I just asked the CAA if I could appeal my Class 2 independently and they said yes, so I did. (I don't even know if people commonly do this or if they always appeal through their AME)?

So I did some research and located a specialist with 35+years experience who is both a expert and also worked for the Air Force, (I figured I needed someone who was both an expert in their field and an understanding of (and experience with working with) pilots in order that he would fight my case. I read his publications and the books he had written, he had also previously worked on high profile aviation cases. He also worked for the CAA as a Consultant (So I felt he would have a good understanding of how they worked, the requirements for my class of medical and was used to interacting with them etc). He did. The class 2 appeal was successful. We won, I got my Class 2 ( & I still have it).

So this year I apply for my Class 1, the new AME (who seems a pleasant character and hasn't done anything to make me question his integrity) said that he would have to refer it to the CAA but that considering all of the above he didn't foresee there being any problem with my Class 1 considering it had all be dealt with within the last 2 years when applying for my class 2 (above), and perhaps he genuinely believed it but he couldn't have been more wrong...


....the CAA asked me to see yet another specialist who disagreed with the first specialist and I didn't get my class 1!
So my current situation involves 2 specialists both looking at the same historic information one saying I'm fit one saying I'm not! Both are attributing my symptoms to different causes, and their view of my symptoms differ as they are looking at them through the prism of their own area of expertise, depending on their respective areas of specialisation, both are Professors (so similar level), now I'm beginning to wonder what to do or where to go from here and am genuinely stumped as to what to do next. Or if there is even a point ?????

The most ironic (and possibly frustrating) thing............there's absolutely nothing at all wrong with me, I have declared everything for legal reasons but I'm just as fit to fly as the next guy!