One of the problems with care in the US are clinics that treat Drs (and NPs and PAs) essentially as billing machines, and don't allow them any time to build any rapport or relationship with patients. Depending on your insurance coverage, your location, and your needs, your experience will vary wildly.
For what it's worth, my experience teaching premeds was also not so great :) That's also anecdotal. But colleagues had similar complaints.
Also:
> And we fail to recognize that what we really have is a distribution problem. Parts of this country have lots of doctors, perhaps too many. ... A result is that many rural areas, and less popular cities, experience more of a doctor shortage than others.
> The other distribution issue is in specialization. When it comes to generalists, we ranked 24th of 28 countries in doctors per 1,000 people. Specialists are a different story. There, we were 11th. This is an important fact about the American health care system. We sometimes hear that we have too many specialists and too few generalists. That’s not necessarily the case. We have an average number of specialists compared with other advanced countries, and even shortages in some specialties. It’s the ratio of specialists to generalists that’s the problem. When you compare the percentage of physicians who are generalists with those who are specialists, the United States beats only Greece among developed economies.
> Here, financial drivers play a role. Doctors who choose to specialize can make much more money, millions more dollars over a career, than primary care physicians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/08/upshot/a-doctor-shortage-...
Also see https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/10/25/doctors-sal...
The US was rather a shock for me. Costs were mind-boggling, and most physicians struck me as jerks. At least, the male ones did, and they predominated. Nurses, on the other hand, generally seemed OK.
Somehow the US healthcare system seems to attract jerks for physicians, and they seem to be mostly in it for the money. Not all of them, obviously. But enough to set the standard.
I have no clue how that happened. Or how to reverse it.
Edit: Some might ask why being "in it for the money" is bad. I mean, that's what "free enterprise" is about, isn't it? But think about it. Is it OK for priests/minster/rabbis to be "in it for the money"? Or politicians? I hope not. And then, why physicians?