The Medical Profession and Me

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FWIW, per a 2020 Gallup report, ethics ratings for nurses and doctors are still higher than any other professions - https://news.gallup.com/poll/328136/ethics-ratings-rise-medical-workers-teachers.aspx. Looking at the ratings I don't necessarily feel bad for members of Congress, but how 'bout those poor car salespeople!

I think we have moved waaaay off track here!
I believe @Wryfox began this thread, and I chimed in in-kind, not necessarily as a cautionary against doctors, but as a motivational for people to be educated and involved in their personal medical care.
As I said, I had a couple of doctors who were shooting in the dark with vague information that I was not clearly articulating for them. It was not their job to know exactly where I hurt, nor did they know my personal history by which I sustained a serious injury- in fact I didn’t even know I had sustained a serious injury!
It was only by chance that a doctor chose to do a very basic test (an x-ray), rather than trying to overthink it, by which we discovered there was a serious problem.
The point here is that we are all responsible for our own medical care. Doctors are only as good as they information they have, and we are responsible for not only being as educated as possible on our physical history, but having the determination and will to get to the bottom of our problems and not take a single diagnosis or treatment as policy.
Both of my parents were doctors, both highly ethical and incredibly dedicated to the health and well-being of their patients. I resent anyone who paints with a broad brush about the medical profession- but do understand that there are some who don’t have the same level of ethics, or inclination/ability to go the extra mile for their patients (some physicians are spread incredibly thin as insurance companies have been dictating policy/procedures/treatments rather than doctors). These outliers in the field do taint the reputation of a very noble profession- which is unfortunate.