Doctors are the highest paid profession in the United States because they have a legal monopoly on the practice of surgery and prescription of medicine. Because their income flows from this monopoly, they over value medical treatments that use prescription drugs and under value treatments that do not, such as diet and exercise. The latest example is the reluctance of the medical community to say the Vitamin D reduces the risk from contracting Covid-19, even though there is strong evidence to show this. Since this is so, your doctor is likely to not tell you the full story of the risks versus the benefits of the drugs you are prescribed and you would do well to research the question on your own, especially if it is a drug you will take for a chronic disease.
