Healthcare professionals have entered a field where empathy, compassion, and an ability to relate well to patients are implicitly mandated.

To suggest patients can influence the machine that drives modern healthcare is naïve and indicative of a flawed understanding of the realities of the industry

If you wanted the perfect illustration of how to "dig yourself a hole" Healthcare and the Covid pandemic provided it. In what history will record as a concerted and unprecedented effort, governments, scientists, doctors and the healthcare industry globally, indulged in a public campaign to combat the SARS-COV2, commencing in early 2020. This campaign still persists.

This nation spends way too much on healthcare; $3.7 trillion annually. America may be the land of the free, but it is also becoming the home of the chronically ill.