This fact is what has bothered the ever-living shit out of me for a while now. It poses the question - is this intentional or is it ignorance? The net effect for me is realizing that most of these doctors aren’t really critical thinkers at all - they just regurgitate “information” without really understanding it. It’s all about “practicing medicine” and less about “practicing tactics to preserve the health of the physical body” - hence the term, physician…
Recent justification for me on this: had to take my daughter to her pediatrician for her TDAP booster for school. The doc told me she was “due” for 2 other vaccines (HPV and meningitis). I refused those two and said I am only interested in the tetanus shot for her. Then I got this lecture on how these other ones could prevent cancers and help with the horrible and scary meningitis… I have no doubt his heart was in the right place, but I’m pretty confident my 12 year old isn’t having sex with and kissing a bunch of dudes just yet. She’s also extremely healthy, active, and doesn’t stuff her mouth with shit all day. To his credit, after his lecture he didn’t bring it up again.
From my layman’s perspective (also having friends and family who are family doctors, athletics teams doctors, etc), “medicine” today is a very strict and unwavering culture of compliance to claims from big pharma and academia. Free thinking is not encouraged and/or cultivated in that profession at the family care level. Strict compliance and parroting are encouraged and any disassociation with that by the patient is to be met with condescending lecture. Two out of three of my medical doctor friends actually think they are the authority on every conversational topic, by simple virtue of them being a “medical doctor”…
This COVID thing has very much reshaped my perspective on the profession. They are so self unaware what their behavior is doing to the trust of patients. People are rapidly losing faith in their “doctor”…. It’s nuts.
