Even before Covid, trust in the medical profession had been declining. Covid may have been to that industry what Gettysburg and Vicksburg were to the Confederacy: serious defeats that ultimately ended in collapse. As in other areas, the self appointed gatekeepers are losing control.
Yesterday, Hubby saw a different PCP because we moved back to our prior town recently. When he walked in, Doc snarled, “What do you want?”
The same guy had been our PCP from 2010-2016, and he had been fine. As you noted, things had “declined”.