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Although I am likely to disagree on the percentage that is intentional and coordinated (very small but not 0%, imo), I think you place the blame in the wrong place. I know many doctors. One of my best friends. The vast majority are well-intentioned and intelligent people. The system itself is flawed. It constantly feeds them flawed information and assumptions. If the assumptions (Think.) and information (Perceive) are flawed, then the actions are sure to be garbage much of the time.Yeah, a lot of people have 'white' coat syndrome, probably for good reasons. I don't even want to think what goes on behind Hospital doors lol, you have to be your best advocate for your own health, like 99% on this forum How many Doctors (truly) believe in the hypocritcal oath these days Hippocratic Oath - Wikipedia there are probably many, but what about the few?
But thinking that medicine is a vast conspiracy of bad people trying to kill you and steal your wallet (not saying that you personally do/not think this, I don't know) is caricature.
That said, like any service profession, there are exceptions. I once stopped a nurse from killing my mother by pitching a fit, getting myself escorted out by police, but thereby invoking a mandatory (hospital policy) review of my mother's care by the medical ombudsman. She was out of that nurse's care in 20 minutes and in emergency surgery I had been agitating for all day. But even then, this was a deeply flawed person, and the far from perfect system actually intervened to do the right thing. And the nurse was banned from one of the US' largest hospital systems as a result. My close doctor friend helped me do this and coached me through some of the intricacies of hospital hierarchy to make it happen (he was 2000 miles away so he couldn't have practically intervened directly).