The problem is that the industry has been corrupt for a very long time, well over a century at least. The medical industry as a whole endorsed lobotomies and electro shock therapy. It conducted the Tuskeegee experiments, and also radiation experiments that President Clinton later called both illegal and unethical, even by the standards of the day. It took part in MK Ultra experiments, including experiments conducted by Dr. Ewing Cameron in Canada, a man who testified for the Allies at the Nuremberg trials. Doctors caused a huge spike in infant mortality when they decided to put midwives out of business, because they refused to wash their hands prior to delivery, even directly after handling corpses.
And, of course, the harmful “treatments” continue today, from radiation and chemo, to SSRIs, Statins, Benzos, Radioactive Iodine, circumcision, and many more (like gender affirming care). Every advocate of any of those treatments will admit when pressed that they are indeed harmful in some cases, but will probably argue that the good outweighs the harm. I’m sure similar cases were made for lobotomies and electro shock.
I’m all for being an optimist, and for looking for the best in people, but I don’t know about being optimistic about an industry that has been corrupt for generations.
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