Greedy — everyone is somewhat greedy, but in medicine, financial incentives are often not aligned with patients’ best interests, and this creates a problem. Ideally the healthcare system would be one in which physician greed would incentivize better healthcare for patients.

Unsympathetic — in my experience, yes. I think many get the empathy trained out of them. So many doctors I’ve been to have been completely cold to me about what happened. The first time I got what happened to me confirmed, after years of struggle and gaslighting, I didn’t feel like the doctor was sympathetic. It must have been a bad day. I was so scared because my dad had told me she would lie if I told her I was there just to confirm what my doctor had done so I could report him. I went home and took 60 Vicodin, Xanax, whiskey, etc. Most people never say they are sorry. I’ve stopped expecting it. But back then it was unbearable.

Uninformed — yes. But this is tricky because it’s basically impossible to keep up with all new information. This is where technology should come in as an aid. What is most important is that doctors know what they don’t know. Also, it’s a bit ridiculous how often clitoral anatomy is incorrectly described in medical literature.

Unworthy of respect — every person is worthy of respect.

Dumb — not exactly. Most people think doctors are smart. The problem is they are often drones. They don’t question things. It seems like different specialties have different personalities and that OB/GYNs are especially bad about this. One of the things that made me crazy was back in 2012, my ex told me he talked to the OB/GYN residents about how clitoral neurovasculae anatomy wasn’t covered in OB/GYN textbooks. And they apparently agreed it was messed up. But why hadn’t any of them noticed without it being pointed out? And why didn’t any of them do anything about it? The dumbest thing doctors do is just have this blind trust in the status quo and in authority. They’ll memorize committee opinions without concern for what is true and what isn’t. They’ll have excessive confidence in things that just aren’t true. I think it’s a problem with medical education. I think it weeds out and discourages critical thinking and figuring things out independently. A great example is the physics section of the MCAT. I took way more advanced physics and engineering classes in college so I could easily get a 14 with unlimited time. But the time limit made it impossible for me to do without just memorizing. It wasn’t designed at all to test real understanding. That’s disturbing to me.