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Individual doctors are rarely deserving of the implicit trust and praise they receive from proximity to the stereotypical hero doctor on this season's popular medical drama.

I went from a general naive faith in the profession to caveat emptor.

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It is truly insane the things that doctors routinely recommend without doing any sort of real review. Get any of the asleep-at-the-wheel health organizations to support your finding and plenty of doctors will recommend even the laziest of new ideas with passion. General downward trend in SIDS over a decade? It's probably because babies that wear footie pajamas are less likely to get bad humors. You're a bad parent if you don't get Shekol brand sleepers.

I don’t think the AAP recommends footie pajamas to prevent SIDS. What you say may or may not happen, but your point would be a lot more poignant if you used a real example rather than contrived nonsense. If the issue you're talking about is widespread, then it should surely be easy to use a real example.

Criteria for c-section. Rates among doctors is 1/3 vs the 8% among midwives. Baby in bassinet and baby on back. SIDS is linked to improper sleep hormone regulation, not sleeping on your stomach. Breastfeeding only once every 4 hours during the day and giving a bottle the rest of the time. Supplimenting formula when mothers are trying to exclusively breastfeed. Waking the baby up to breastfeed despite no weight concerns. Circumcision. Prescribing amphetamines to prepubescent children. Prescribing hormone blockers to prepubescent children. Prescribing thalidomide to pregnant women. Continuing to gamble with mass casualties by railroading experiments that have not been adequately tested relative to the subject size (like Tdap for pregnant women or the COVID jab you probably got).

Doctors as a whole are not given the allowances they need to think about what they're doing. Today, they are little more than billable entities that follow someone else's flow chart to serve you McHealthcare as "efficiently" as possible.

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