Yes, the pharmaceutical companies control medicine.

That would be akin to not knowing anything about medicine, going to the doctor and saying 'you need to fix my issue this way by doing x, y and z and give me this xxx medicine'. 

I think the lack of professionalism is due to it being a career with a very low barrier to entry (a few weeks of an online course, versus years of schooling required for other professions such as finance, engineering, and medicine).

What area of medicine are you in?

I am in Medicine, most patient sue us Doctors not for mistakes we make, but lack of transparency/information, it forces us to give information.

Even within med office there is quite a bit of variation, where the retail and med overlap is in the retail medicine, ie pharmacies, urgent cares, remote EDs etc. 

If you are able to move and want to live in Alberta, look at places like Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Red Deer, or the communities around Calgary. 

I have been a Functional Medicine Health Coach for 9 years and also plan to launch my corporate wellness program there as well. 

49 and 44 year old physician/realtor couple with the 49 yo physician looking to transition to partial/full retirement from medicine in about 3 1/2 years. 

It takes a special kind of optimism-starved brain chemistry to look at an advancing technology that’s transforming medicine, education, accessibility, and creativity — and go, “ehh, it’s just a toy.”