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>A doctor's #1 loyalty is to the partnership/practice. Always.

>"Bedside manner" is a skill they demonstrate to falsely suggest they know you from Adam.

>You are a billing opportunity; their job is to run through as many chargeable procedures as they can while that window is open.

>If they can't find anything more they can bill for, they'll "run tests" and conduct other "preventive medicine" procedures

>If you are in overall good health, you are not likely to get good outcomes from doctors for acute afflictions, save major physical injuries. If whatever your problem is isn't costing you any sleep, you're not likely to benefit going to see a doctor.

>Whatever you go to a doctor for, unless he has direct past experience with those exact same symptoms and saw it through to a successful conclusion, you're better off not going. Better to go undiagnosed than wrongly diagnosed.

>"Medicine" as it is practiced in the west is simply trade-offs; you go to the doctor to trade your malady for some malady that's less uncomfortable, usually at the cost of your long term health

That's my experience. I've had cadillac benefits for years now and fucking never use them.