Wondering how many of us still trust doctors? - MModal Livestock

I've been curious for a while how others feel about the care delivery end of the health care industry that we work for, i.e. going to the doctor yourself.  As employees of the largest transcription company in the world with a wide selection of the good, the bad and the ugly of hospitals, clinics, doctors and doctor impersonaters, how has this tallest building in the city view of the industry shaped your opinion?  Do you go to your trusted doctor when you get a cold, or when you were hit by a bus did you crawl home and sleep it off because you thought it was better than letting those white coated butchers get their hands on you?  Are hospitals modern marvels of technology and human ingenuity, or twisted asylums of last resort? 

The big debate isn't whether doctor's make mistakes.  They're human.  Of course they make mistakes.  What I'm more curious about is whether people see it as the occasional error or mistake, or an industry wide corruption and incompetence, or anywhere in between.  For me personally, I don't trust doctors and I avoid them if at all possible.  I consider myself very lucky to have found a competent physician who cares about his patients.  I went through a lot of doctors to get to him. 

I feel that hospitals are a poorly run business that don't care about their patients and seek only to placate their customers and charge them exorbitant fees for scientifically questionable and often undertested medications and procedures approved by a corrupt FDA and AMA.  I've seen the reports produced by the offshores and I can only imagine how many mistakes are sneaking past us because of the ASR (both from the difficulty of decoding the program's strange new language and from the number of MEs who, in an attempt to make their deadlines and feed their families, are going too fast.)  The doctors don't speak English (even the English as first and only language ones) and most of the ones I type for are too old, stupid and illiterate to use a telephone right, much less hold a person's internal organs in their hands.  Combine that with RX companies that only care about money, understaffed, underpaid, undermaintained, crumbling hospitals, health insurance companies always finding ways to get out of paying, and doctors that are overworked and undereducated, and I would rate this country's medical system as third world. 

But that's just my opinion and experience.  I'm a natural pessimist (I defend it as realism, mind you).  You tell me I've just won a boat and first thing I'll do is check my life insurance to make sure it includes maritime accidents.  So, I'll quit my rambling and look forward to hearing what my co-workers (and anybody else) think about trusting their lives to the same people who can't pronounce "larnyx" right even though their ENT and the same guys who call us and go "Oh, hi!" like we surprised them.