> Going from "doctors who have X machine order X procedure more often" to "doctors treat patients like an ATM machine" is a huge leap. I recall what a nurse on

> Going from "doctors who have X machine order X procedure more often" to "doctors treat patients like an ATM machine" is a huge leap. I recall what a nurse once told me, that she was glad she doesn't have private insurance, because that can easily mean they put "tubes into every hole" even when there is no point in doing so (this was in the context of terminal cancer, mind you). That was in Germany, and not in some crappy backwater hospital either. > There are bad apples in every bunch Actually it's "a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch". So instead of blaming "fearmongering crap", maybe blame the bad apples, instead of just accepting them as given. Not that you don't have a point at all; trust is really required. But not blind trust, and not naiveté; those are just as unhelpful as unfounded distrust would be. As they say, nature abhors a vacuum.