A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.
It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).
A huge number of Gen X and boomers have a strange idea that you’re supposed to distrust and challenge doctors constantly. Like they’re going to try to cheat you or something.
It’s not that strange an idea given the extent to which the pharmaceutical industry essentially bribes doctors to prescribe their drugs, or the frequency with which health care organizations defraud Medicare and insurance companies, fraud which often takes the form of unnecessary medical procedures. Blindly trusting any professional is the strange idea (I agree that constant distrust is probably unhelpful).