Thanks for the story. It is part of the psyop that a lab coat somehow confers sanctity and wisdom - I bet your friend would have gone ahead with the surgery without your intervention!

Most doctors I've had the misfortune to meet have been incompetent, stupid, lazy and thoughtless. Yes, a very small number are very good, but what happens when the drug-cheques arrive?

In a moment of honesty - as I had figured out myself the cause of my so-called auto-immune disease - my dermo admitted that the vast majority of his real patients (excluding the beautification dept) developed symptoms from the toxic drugs prescribed to them from other doctors in the same hospital! And they are still dishing out the same shit to humans!

I would like to revamp the "Just Say No!" campaign, which, if I recall, seriously backfired as it assumed people would only link it to street drugs. Although #JustSayNo works on so many levels ;-)