I retired myself mostly due to the plandemic, but the passage of the ACA was the beginning of the end for many of us. The plandemic was simply the nail in the coffin. What medicine has become was not what I and many others signed up for. I always forged a path leaning more alternative anyway.

Throughout my career I always encouraged my patients to do their own homework and never completely trust someone just because they have a diploma hanging on the wall. Trust is earned and should never be given without first establishing trustworthiness. It always shocked me that people will spend more time and effort shopping for a new pair of shoes or some electronic gadget than they will for retaining the services of a professional - attorneys, doctors, dentists, etc. The public themselves override their own natural instincts placed there by God for their protection in exchange for worship at the altar of scientism that reinforces medical elitism. I never liked being on that pedestal. We should all have a healthy level of skepticism, but outright distrust from cynicism is just as bad. There always needs to be balance. We should seek advice from those with expertise and see if it fits for us. But to just blindly hand trust over to another has led to much of what we are experiencing with the breakdown of our society. Sadly, the public must share some of the blame here because of their own lack of due diligence.

Our health care system needs a complete overhaul starting with education. So much of what is taught is flat wrong. Only then will trust be able to be reestablished. If the foundation is faulty, then the structure built upon it will be flawed as well.