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A short piece I just wrote. http://canadianatheist.com/2017/05/doctors-you-are-not-helping/
@drjeats The idea of always respecting our doctor has slowly been changing but the point here is the medical profession (including pharmacies) don't care about science; They care about the bottom line.
@Dianora "It’s odd that the general public highly respects medical practitioners [...] yet there is so much suspicion of science."
This is funny to me because soon after my boss started dating his wife--a surgeon of some kind--he started ranting about how he no longer trusts most doctors based on her talking about sitting in on procedures. "Glorified mechanic" is the exact phrase he started using. This was a few years before Ben Carson entered politics and made the point that much more obvious