While you are absolutely correct, I’ve come to realize it’s not solely the fault of medical professionals.

Even competent and knowledgeable doctors know that most people are unwilling to work for their own health or take care of themselves.

They just want a magic pill for each ailment, and the suggestion that their arthritis, cognition, diabetes, weight, or even cancer could be cured or strongly mitigated by adherence to healthy habits like a strictly unprocessed diet or proper exercise, is scoffed at or ignored.

I’ve seen it happen - the doctor that suggests healthy lifestyle choices to a suffering family member almost universally gets ignored in favor of the doctor suggesting big pharma drugs, radiation, or surgery.

I’ve heard from good doctors how frustrating it is, when the cure is right in front of them and nobody will listen.

We DO have a healthcare professional crisis as you said, but that’s only the first half of the issue. Getting everyone else to take responsibility for their health is the other half.