This is a perspective that I continually see dismissed in the wider political landscape. When we say "The American Medical System is fucked" we're not just talking about getting hit with massive bills.

Ask folks with chronic conditions, who are seeking medical treatment, how they feel about doctors. These aren't "tinfoil hat looneys" and they know the system well. I'd bet a good amount that the most plentiful opinion will be "fuck them".

Women and folks of color are constantly neglected in our system. Nuerodiverse folks are constantly abused. Walk with an ADHD person trying to get diagnosed, or get meds refilled. Listen to a patient with chronic pain; with schizophrenia; with anything beyond the generic "anxiety and depression". Sit with a pregnant woman of color on Medicaid going into labor.

Or look through the two centuries of medical malpractice against women and people of color. Have we forgotten the opioid epidemic? It wasn't the CEOs handing those prescriptions out. Have we forgotten the horrors of lobotomies and mental wards? The latter still exist. Are we just going to brush over how the queerphobic "Lavender scare" was legitimized by the medical industry? Being trans still is 3 or so mental disorders; and any identity past that point was grounds to get violated before Trump's reelection, and still is.

I don't know where this fetishized view of the "ever-trustworthy doctor" comes from, but it's as detached from reality as the Manosphere's "happy 50s housewife".

It really does. Mark Zuckerberg should be tried at the Hague for war crimes for weaponized disinformation.

I Pray that the children get to be reincarnated as humans with smarter parents.

The base rate of infant mortality used to be significantly higher than it is now. It’s possible it was always there and we didn’t evolve it away for some reason

You need bacteria in your gut to produce vitamin K, this takes a while. You can administer vitamin K orally and everything will usually be fine. The issue arises in rare cases where the bile duct hasn’t developed properly. There are other signs but one of them is vitamin K not absorbing properly since it’s fat soluble and you need bile to absorb fat. Administering vitamin K as a shot circumvents the gut and prevents children with these rare conditions from bleeding to death before the issue is detected.