medecine is highly emotional, if you give people the choice of doing nothing vs doing something/anything people will, out of shame, do that thing. There has to be a strong cultural, evidence based, or other, justification to do nothing. Probably not the case most of the time, and it's going to stay that way, because as you mentioned, there's a boatload of money to be made out of it and careers depend on it.
Doing something, anything is very much the american school of thought. In Europe, people are often very happy if they can just do nothing. Incidentally, that's also the real reason why US healthcare is so much more expensive.
> if you give people the choice of doing nothing vs doing something/anything people will, out of shame, do that thing.
That’s an awfully broad generalization. Anecdotally I prefer to avoid intervention though I don’t mind going to the doctor in case that would be the wrong choice.
I am the child of a doctor so I wonder if that influenced my attitude.
