Right. But keep in mind that the comment you responded to wasn't about hating doctors, just pointing out true observations about the forces that are at work on them. Most CME is pharma-sponsored, pooh-pooh-ing supplements at every opportunity, and omitting them the rest of the time.

Doctors today enter medical school so they can cure people, not to specialize in insurance coding, consultation documentation, and pharma rep management. But the school pops them out right into a machine that grinds them down, and nearly prevents them from exercising their conscience. If you're over 60 (and a woman, I haven't checked on the men but probably applies the same), your life expectancy is better in Mexico than the US. It's because our "health care system" shed the "care" part two decades ago, and is rapidly rationing the "health" as well, leaving only "system."

I guess we're mostly on the same page, just had to rant a bit. People are good; the US health care system has been purging itself of its humanity for a while now.