It's exactly this attitude that turns me off of a lot of doctors. It dehumanizes the experience of being a patient. First you are put in a bin, then the doctor

It's exactly this attitude that turns me off of a lot of doctors. It dehumanizes the experience of being a patient. First you are put in a bin, then the doctor basically runs you through a check list. It's really unfortunate that nearly 100% of the bins are disease or a disorder. A typical interaction with a doctor involves finding out which disease bin you should be in, and then putting you in there. Once you're there, they're not concerned with making you healthier, or looking at the variety of options that could improve your life. They're just concerned with doing the standard operating procedure for dealing with the disease. Instead of being a person, the patient becomes a checklist. Many doctors don't even see you. They see the bin you're in, and the many potential bins you could potentially be in. What if half the bins were about great physical health? And what if the doctors worked just as hard to get you into one of those, as they do "treating" the diseases you might have? Ugghhh. It makes me sad thinking about how far we are from that world.