The Futility of Doctors

This is poorly written in stream of consciousness. Insurance companies and CMS make the irrelevant questions necessary. They also dictate how long one actually has to spend with a patient without losing money.<p>When you arrive at a hospital with a fever, I sure hope you have a doctor to help you figure out whether it is a deadly bacterial infection, malignancy, autoimmune, or just a common virus.<p>There are many things that medical science doesn’t understand, but that doesn’t mean that doctors aren’t trying.<p>Do a little research before you write such a scathing piece?

I didn&#x27;t get much farther than the author describing how doctors &quot;prescribe Ibuprofen.&quot; Ibuprofen is an over the counter medication. No doctor actually writes a script for it; they just say &quot;hey try this for your pain.&quot; They make no money off saying that, or recommending ibuprofen over tylenol or whatever, because these are not prescription medications and doctors aren&#x27;t being courted by pharma companies to push OTC drugs everyone already likes and knows about.<p>They actually recommend this because Ibuprofen and Tylenol are widely available, cheap, and very safe. (Unless you take too much Tylenol, which, seriously don&#x27;t.) Most people already have a bottle of one or the other or both.<p>There are actual drugs doctors sometimes get rewarded for prescribing, in various ways, but OTC pills are rarely it. See opioids, for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthline.com&#x2F;health-news&#x2F;is-your-doctor-getting-paid-to-prescribe-painkillers-for-you#How-to-know-if-doctor-is-being-paid-to-prescribe-you-certain-drugs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.healthline.com&#x2F;health-news&#x2F;is-your-doctor-gettin...</a>

&gt; Why do they recommend plant-based foods when study after study has consistently shown how bad the effects are? &gt; Why do doctors still prescribe statins when their efficacy has already been proven to be less useful than a diet change?<p>Can OP elaborate?

For such a horribly critical piece, the author doesn&#x27;t seem to understand the bare minimum about the medical profession.<p>&gt; Doctors become unwilling to take any risk out of fear of losing their license.<p>Perhaps because mistakes are paid in human lives?

This seems very weird to me<p>The US medical system is trash<p>But damn if I&#x27;m not usually very impressed with doctor expertise<p>Just seems like a hot take without much or any evidence<p>Starts talking about &#x27;the system&#x27;<p>I always read the Dr column in the NYT that has doctors and other medical experts diagnosing the craziest illnesses<p>Computers, by comparison, are kindergarten-level play blocks or something<p>And new medical breakthroughs on an almost daily basis<p>To each their own