The baker or shoemaker comment was intended with irony as I'm sure you understood.
Precisely because it's your health that is at stake I believe it is important to look them in the eye and see how you feel about them.
I chose a doc here at random for myself when I had to, but knew once I met him he was "the one" for me. I was proved right, thank goodness.
I chose another one for my partner from a list because he spoke English but I did not like him at all "on sight".
He, however, chose to persevere with him despite many differences of opinion between them as well as problems to communicate in any of the languages they had in common, but that was his choice to make.Luckily there were no disasters as there may easily have been in those circumstances.
I would have changed-I do not consider anyone to be godlike- far from it I am hyper critical, if anything.