Because I think about 99% of doctors today are owned, lock-stock-and-barrel, by corporate entities or Big Pharma itself. My own doctor... a good guy really... is part of a larger "medical group" that spans nearly all of east Tennessee. He's just a cog in the wheel, and it absolves him of the necessity to hire his own staff, lease a building, have specialized equipment, a payroll, and do tons of required paper work.

So he privately tells me he can go home at the end of his shift and not think about business or patients until the next day. He doesn't LIKE the situation, but the lone doctor(s) providing general practitioner care these days is a rarity. So he spouts the corporate line, but I know it's because he has to and he understands that. He asked me if I were vaccinated (covid) and I told him "No" and told him why... he dropped it at that, said, "I respect your decision."

Doctors today are a far cry from the type of doctors we grew up with; they are mostly corporate employees with tons of restrictions and requirements that are not always in the patient's interest.