Well said.
There was a day when they chose to start wearing white lab jackets to improve their image and create an air of confidence. They will need another gimmick and a better extended track record to revive their profession.
“They will need another gimmick and a better extended track record to revive their profession.”
They don’t care. It’s a business now.
You need to pay >$100 for a doctor to tell you you need pink stuff for your kid, which you get for $50 from the pharmacy for $5.00 in antibiotics
It also costs you in time - waiting at the doctors office, travelling back and forth from the pharmacy, and working with insurance paperwork.
I know all the arguments against it from doctors, but if you had amoxicillin in your medicine cabinet, the vast majority of the time you could just treat your kid at home and dispense with the cost, expense, and risk of dealing with the medical complex.