Clearly not the case any longer. I left the hospital setting about 30 years ago. I worked as a Medical Technologist in the Lab for about 15 years or so. I knew a lot of dumbasses calling themselves Doctors back then. I think it is so much worse now.

30 years ago hospitals were all losing money leading to consolidation and concentration of ownership. They have obviously adopted a new business model involving collusion between insurance, pharma, and HMOs. Hold patients captive and treat them to death with expensive meds and tests. Patient dies and all they have to say is "Next".

The ER Doc as patient advocate story was compelling and all too familiar.

1. Treat for Covid in Hospital (ie: Germ Zoo) settining with steroids which supress immune system, by design.
2. Patient contracts Bacterial Pneumonia as direct result.
3. Properly trained medical personnel will anticipate this from their training but for some reason they miss it anyway.
4. Miss timely diagnosis and proper treatment for 3 days running.
5. Because of delay in treatment (with probably inexpensive antibiotics) infection spreads from lungs to bloodstream (SEPSIS). This patient will likely die!!!!
6. Next!