This is purely anecdotal but, please, no more influx of antibiotic and steroid dispensing doctors that don't know anything else. I'm so tired of doctors that give me the distinct impression they're the equivalent of a tier 1 desktop support rep for the human body.

Or if we must have them, please keep the confined to the minute clinics at the drug store and bar them from billing themselves as real GPs.

Don't blame the doctors, the entire medical establishment from pre-med undergrad to the hospital has been captured by the insurance companies with the backing of federal regulation. They've removed any doctor/patient relationship with a simple heuristic that (surprise!) always results in some pharmaceutical intervention.

Australia has tried to get some of the way there with Nurse Practitioners.

I'm in Tasmania, so here's the a PDF from the Tasmanian Department of Health Services explaining what a Nurse Practitioner can do, including prescribing some medication and interpreting diagnostic test

https://www.dhhs.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/6408...

This is partly because in Australia, regular nurses can do virtually nothing on their own initiative.

A friend of mine was an ICU nurse in Canada before moving to Australia. It was a long and painful process to get qualified again, and when she did, she found out she had been demoted from being able to meaningfully improve patient care (eg the prescriptions and diagnoses you mention) to a robot carrying out orders.

I intentional refrained from ranting about the medical profession’s protectionism in Australia.