David C (-Much Hustle-)

The more centralized and top down healthcare gets the worse the service and more dangerous the "care". There is an unsustainable perverse incentive system that has destroyed what was and based on what will be attracted, what will come as well. It would be wise for each person, especially parents, to put down the "programming" (so called entertainment) and pick up an open source research ai, or even just a medical terminology dictionary and read studies. Given the average time spent with a patient, by the doctor, is around 7 min. combined with the misdirection allopathic medicine has taken etc I am confident the some effort by any 130+ IQ and a zest for learning can gain more "subject matter expertise" over their own health than is possible by an average general practice doctor, especially if treating a visit to SPECIALIST as an opportunity for an expert 2nd opinion or as the consultant they should be (instead of the infallible dictator we abdicate our will to). Obviously I am opinionated on this subject and since Google asked......