I am coming to believe that doctors are just an arm of pharma companies. Example: there is a drug for increasing bone density. People didn't used to get bone density scans unless there was a suspected problem. When this drug came around, people just started testing every woman over 50, regardless of family history or any underlying health concern. (Note: the test is not super accurate) So now, you get prescribed this drug if your bone density is low at this scan. And people are making bank on it. Source: https://www.npr.org/2009/12/21/121609815/how-a-bone-disease-grew-to-fit-the-prescription But before the pharmaceutical there was no standard testing.

I'm old so I remember when A1C was only looked at if you had a bad blood sugar test. Now that there are drugs that lower your A1C (Invokana, Ozempic, etc), now EVERYONE is being tested for it. All because they might be able to sell you a pill that will lower the test...oh, those pills are really bad for you, by the way. I foolishly took Invokana as part of a doctor supervised weight loss clinic. It fucks with your urine in ways that are REALLY bad for your body. It also can damage your kidneys.

My own story is a fun one: As one ages, their ability to create vitamin D lowers (you make less of a hormone). The lower vitamin D will also make you insulin resistant. This is why so many people in their 40s and 50s wind up with blood sugar problems (it's not diet-related unless all you ate was candy - that's just dr's passing the buck instead of learning). Well, as I became insulin-resistant, I started to eat few carbs (because that's what one does). This also meant I wasn't eating many foods with potassium in them. I got edema. I went to a doctor. They tested my heart like crazy. Shrugged when that all worked out and gave me a "water pill". Water pills lower your edema buuuut, they strip your body of potassium. Well, they hurt so I stopped taking them and stopped eating all salt. I was still always a little puffy. Finally, I started Keto and started taking potassium to avoid keto-flu. The edema miraculously went away. I learned later you can get edema from not enough potassium in your diet. It doesn't show on a blood test because blood homeostasis is a thing. However, had I kept taking those water pills, the lack of potassium in my diet + the pills stripping it out of my body would've given me a heart attack. Those fucking doctors could've killed me.

I'm done with doctors unless I have a bone break or something that needs stitches. When it comes to anything that is treatable with medications, hell to the no.