In the US my best doctors produce out of date advice about obvious things, have a very distinct gap between "everyday" (stuff they actually see) and "incredibly rare" (stuff unique enough to be a case study they heard about) in their knowledge/understanding and rarely advise things that require me to be a proactive and rational person (because they don't serve these often), so they'll spend two seconds being like "diet and exercise" without a discussion on how that'd work or what adjustments I'd actually make (leaving me to do this research myself) and then suggest a prescription (because even their least proactive patient will probably take a pill). They'll wait until things become a disorder before addressing them (or discussing with me how to address them).The worst will basically laugh me out of their office for daring to belong to a marginalized identity or failing to already have the health knowledge I'm there trying to gain from them.
Maybe I have awful luck... but I have very little faith at this point. The most effective relationship I had was with a hack who was willing to just prescribe whatever I asked him for and order whatever tests I asked him for (I think most of his patient base were college students seeking amphetamine salts).
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