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.
Wow, I didn’t realize the doctor/pharma relationship was that incestuous. I mean, I knew there was some cozying, but that’s courting on a Ukraine-bribing-Biden level.