In my experience the situation in the US is about on par, only with very few shining exceptions. I never bother to see a physician unless I'm fairly confident t

In my experience the situation in the US is about on par, only with very few shining exceptions. I never bother to see a physician unless I'm fairly confident there's something going on I can't fix and I have a good idea of what it is and isn't. The alternative is spending 20 minutes talking to someone filling out forms on a PC and pretending to listen before working as quickly as possible to get you out of their office. Oh, you have some kind of acid-related chest pain? We'll just prescribe a proton pump inhibitor for the rest of your life rather than worry about fixing anything, thank you come again. Hell, when I was a child and my thyroid failed physicians spent 2 years telling my mother that I was just lazy. My symptoms were so textbook that a coworker of hers diagnosed hypothyroidism, sight unseen, from the mere description. Even so, she had to demand they perform the incredibly simple blood test to confirm. Needless to say, I have very little respect for physicians in general.