I can sympathise with your phobia of doctors. Have currently a very good doctor, who takes the view that we are adults, and that if I feel a med is not good for me, I can simply stop taking it. This necessary because of recent (hospital) pressure to take statins, which I DO NOT WANT. What is worrying is that she's very active politically, and only works 2 days a week - it can take literally a month to get an appointment with her as distinct from some of the other clutzes at the practice. Both I and hubby have experience of MANY grades of doctors, from childhood onward. There are awful doctors, and there are doctors who are simply closed miinded, and there are doctors who are actually good at what they do.
But my question is HOW do we DO something about this? Shaming? How?