Even in the best of times good information from doctors is hard to come by

This is especially true here in the U.S. by the way.

Why is this?

This is what I think: "First of all if you leave medical school as a doctor with $200,000 in student loans to pay off your primary mission isn't to heal people but to pay off this loan as soon as possible. So, to expect anyone, NO MATTER HOW SINCERE THEY ARE at becoming a doctor and healer to be anything else but a business person is to be pretty ridiculous unless they were rich enough to pay off the loans with money from their parents.

This is where the problem starts but this isn't where it ends.

Then, to make enough money to pay off your student loans without going bankrupt in the process they have to specialize somewhere that they can make enough money to make it all worthwhile in the first place.

And by specializing it means usually living in suburbia near a big city away from the country where people don't have enough money to pay for good doctors.

Then in order to make enough money to live well and pay off student loans they have to take many many more patients than they can effectively treat in their specialty.

So then when people like myself need help it is very hard to come by unless they are on Medicare by that time. And even then this doesn't solve all the problems either.

In fact, in some ways this just increases the problems patients deal with in many ways even when they aren't going bankrupt trying to pay off medical bills.

So, medicine in the U.S. is a losing proposition for everyone and it's just getting worse every single day now no matter how much you are charged for it.