Do You Trust Your Doctor?

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I never go to a doctor or a dentist or a hairdresser.
Though begin of June last year I had to go to the emergency, as one of my cats had an accident, he was jumping down the window sill, but one toe got stuck in the radiator underneath it and he flipped upside down and could not free himself out of that position and I helped him, but he was panicking and biting me seriously into my hand and it got swollen and I had to go to the emergency to get a tetanus-injection and antibiotics, as bacterias from a cat-mouth are very dangerous to humans.
Anyway they did ask who my regular doctor was and I had none and it seems that people do have a regular doctor.

I used to trust doctors. My guardian still insists on trusting them and needs to see a signed certificate to believe I have acne.
He continues to trust doctors regardless of how many times he and members of his family are let down by them, which so far constitutes one
death and three near-deaths.
I realize that doctors are not miracle-workers and that they don't know everything there is to know about medicine, but in our case all of the doctors where highly trained, highly-paid specialists in the areas of concern and in every case it was just a matter of using common-sense, which was abundantly clear to everyone apart from the doctor.
As an example, I arrived back very ill from a tropical country and was assured that it was, 'just a co-incidence' and the real problem was something else that had been lying low my whole life and just happened to have chosen this particular week to make an appearance.
Doctors are following (if you're lucky) a textbook flowchart which tells them what to prescribe / diagnose based on symptoms and does not take into account much backstory.

I don't trust patients.

I trust my Dr about as far as I can throw him, which is about twenty feet.... he is not that big.

I trust him to fall off the wagon and not show up for work.

I trust him to write whatever script I want and to give me a referral to anyone I want at anytime.