In fact, for all the flaws with medicine, everyone in my immediate family including myself would be dead today without it. Just a few years ago I watched my mother who I had found unconscious on the floor basically come back to life with artificial stents in her heart to restore the blood flow after the heart attack that should have killed her. I myself stopped breathing on my own when I was five from pneumonia. Fortunately I was in a hospital at the time. I cannot ever fully express my gratitude to the doctors and other workers for these gifts.
My last visit to a doctor, they told me that my diagnosis of my condition "sounds right", but that I can't afford a diagnosis and they refuse to do any testing. They will cheerfully provide me with any of several drugs that might make life more tolerable, but also likely shorter.
My experience with the medical establishment has been uniformly negative. People I know are much more fond of medicine, but as far as I can see they're being served no better. They just can't admit to themselves that they might be better off without it.
As someone who has experienced similar, this was the first detail I spotted — how long it takes to get doctors to take you seriously, even if you have some clues and don't make assumptions, just ask for help, can be absurd.
They blame it on other people being hypochondriacs + WebMD, overtaxed offices... I blame it on treating symptoms instead of forging healthy people. Which is what the AMA does, more or less.
I certainly don't want to visit any building where modern medicine is committed, now; and have no faith in the good will (much less ability) of anyone who voluntarily associates themselves with that profession. Even the good people that are there have had their hands tied and their minds broken.