M2 here. This site never gives doctors the benefit of the doubt and has some of the worst takes on the profession. Every thread where physicians get brought up you can count on someone saying they're overpaid, can EASILY be replaced by a google search, are using the AMA to limit the supply of doctors, etc. The AMA can't even prevent nurse practitioners from getting full practice authority to use their 500 hours of training to harm patients, how exactly are they limiting supply. For a site and a profession that values data and research so much, a lot of people on this site do zero research on the US and other countries' healthcare systems, how physicians and midlevels get paid, what factors are increasing healthcare costs before denigrating physicians as greedy and useless.
People just have no idea what goes into training a physician. Even after 2 full years of studying medicine I feel like I don't know anything, the field is that huge. I assume some of the bad takes are due to most people on this site being young and only ever interfacing with the healthcare system whenever they get strep throat. Sure someone can Google that you need to treat strep throat with antibiotics (maybe they'll even pick the right one!), but make sure to warn them about post strep glomerulonephritis. Oh what's that, and why do I need to warn them about that and not rheumatic fever...