Having said that we also need to look at patients taking more accountability for their health and consequences for wasting medical professional times.
My 6 month old son was put on topical steroids for a small rash on his back and the doctors solution when this turned into a progressive issue was more and stronger topical steroids.
Eventually I learned about topical steroid withdrawal, and after a hellish withdrawal period, my son has no real skin conditions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpW4VV2bsD8&t=28s
And yes, my son at ~1 year old was red and bleeding like that head to toe.
When I brought up steroid withdrawal I was rudely dismissed by multiple doctors including dermatologists.
Doctors currently have willful blinders on at a minimum, and some may be a true embodiment of evil. I hope the whole for profit medical system crashes and burns.
There's just a large range in quality amongst doctors. What you're calling "willful blinders" or "true embodiment of evil" is more likely just a failure to adapt out of a simple paradigm: {Inflammation}->{Treatment = steroids}. And a failure to recognize when that was causing a loop. Maybe they forgot about steroid withdrawal. In fact, as someone with quite an interest in pharmacology and some background as a paramedic, this is the first I've ever heard of it, and I love obscure medication issues.
As I mentioned in my comment I mentioned steroid withdrawal to many doctors when my son was literally only sleeping an hour or so a night from itching and I was dismissed out of hand.
If its not kickbacks, then its such a terrible arrogance as to be evil.
How can a dermatologist not know of my son's condition? Particularly seeing as steroids have been around for a while as you've mentioned. Even when I brought the idea to the dermatologist, after a bit of head nodding his solution was another two weeks of a yet stronger steroid to `calm it down`, and then to taper.
There's a nonprofit trying to get doctors to properly acknowledge the condition.
There's as I linked above about a million videos of people recovering from TSW as well.
There's even a study out of Autstralia that followed 10 children with what was called bad eczema, but after a withdrawal period every child at max had pruritis on elbows or knees.
https://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content_files/files/pdf/...
If my job were skin, and topical steroids was one of the main things I used as a tool, how could I not know about these issues? You'd have to be such a hack that nobody would consider you a professional, yet the same dermatologist that offered yet another round of steroids had his office on the penthouse suite of a downtown building with a showcase displaying awards.
It may seem hyperbolic to you, but you didn't live through this like I did. You didn't see your young child in complete misery due to medical authorities you thought you could trust misguiding you. It's evil of some form.
The correct diagnosis was: That sounds like chronic inflammation. Hit the gym and lose 20 lbs, fattie.
The profit model of the U.S. healthcare industry might have something to do with it. The fact that hospitals are run like businesses and have shareholders is insane to me. I know other countries' healthcare systems got hit hard by the pandemic too, but it seems like the uniquely capitalist nature of healthcare in the U.S. sets it up to mistreat workers and cut corners for the benefit of administrators and executives.