From the beginning of my adult life choosing my own doctors, that has been my experience more often than not the several times when I had something seriously wrong—at least with the allopathic docs. In the past 20 years after multiple misdiagnoses and lost time and money, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about prevention: diet, exercise, vitamins and minerals, and how to avoid allergens and carcinogens. It's a world of knowledge the M.D.s fight against. I've had to prove the worth of supplementation over and over whenever I've had to move to a new primary physician, usually by going off supplements for six months shortly after hearing their routine denunciations and put-downs, and then showing them how my blood test scores compared with the ones when I was taking a vitamin/mineral regimen.
At the beginning of the plandemic I heard the raft of "safe and effective" propaganda from my doc, which I resisted; and about a year later after not having gotten either the vax or the Covid (thank God), I got pious advice from my doc to take Vitamin D, C and Zinc, which I had already been taking for 20 years—I had submitted a list of all my supplements when meeting my doc for the first time. She got mad when she realized, and didn't want to order a blood check of my latest Vitamin D levels because it was for her like a Democrat being forced to admit Trump had controlled fuel costs and kept us out of war—even though Vit D is not just about resisting Covid, but also resisting breast cancer and a load of other ailments. Then I got mad.
I'm really fed up with my Part D plan and am looking into changing so I can hope to get a better doctor. I really hope the government doesn't try to make the vax mandatory for government patients (Medicare, Obamacare, etc).
And PS, given the topic of this thread, I recall when looking back that every time I did have something seriously wrong (appendicitis, gallstones, a couple of other things requiring surgery), doctors first told me that what I needed were anti-depressants. The first two times I believed them and took the “mother’s little helpers”, with the delay before surgery resulting in a much worse condition and longer recovery than if they had done the correct diagnosis in the first place.
Truly, BigPharma has them utterly brainwashed and co-opted. I had relatives who were docs. They received dozens of gifts, wine, fruit baskets, luncheons, dinners, items of merchandise with the drug company’s logo on them, and travel to “medical conferences” in Las Vegas, Hawaii, etc. One of them said porn films were shown at one of those junkets in the 80s. The whole sales gimmick of sending these “drug reps” to fill the doc’s shelves with drug samples and to bribe them with gifts is scandalous. Don’t think that a lot of docs haven’t become hooked on opiods or benzodiazepines themselves by dipping into the drug samples. My one (married) drug-abusing physician relative was having an affair with a drug rep. Revolting.