Here's some fun facts for those that aren't aware. In healthcare, there are nurses (4 year degree), mid-level's (6 year degree) and doctors (8 year degree + 2 years working under another doctor). Mid-levels, which go by many names and titles, are simply nurses that studied for 2 additional years so they could get a pay bump. This is why you now see so many women in healthcare. Doctors are still almost exclusively men, but when you go, you hardly ever get a man, it's always some daft woman. That's a mid-level. The majority of doctors are completely incompetent and useless. Like working in engineering, IT, science or any other professional degree, the majority are people who were good at memorization and were able to get a piece of paper from a jewish paper mill referred to as college. A person who is good at their profession would have been good at it regardless of the jewish paper mill, some people are simply passionate about what they do. So understanding that a majority of doctors are shit, you can only fathom the utter incompetence of mid-levels. Here's the grift, mid-levels are borderline retarded as they (this is true) just type your symptoms into a computer program and the program either gives them a list of drugs to sell you or it recommends that you go see an actual doctor. Seriously, they are incapable of treating literally anything. You would be just as well off seeing a drug dealer, as long as that drug dealer could look you over and go, "damn dude, you look really sick, you should go see a doctor or something." That, is a mid-level. The medical grift is that you used to see a doctor, get charged some crazy fee. Now, you see a mid-level and get charged the same insane fee, but if you have an actual medical ailment and the mid-level sends you to a doctor for actual treatment, now they get to charge you twice. Even though the mid-level does absolutely nothing, you will still get a bill for hundreds of dollars. You are better off typing your symptoms into the Internet, because unlike a mid-level, which is supposed to pump through patients every 15 minutes, you would probably take the time to check a couple different sources. As for the drugs the mid-levels prescribe, it's almost always addictive opioids or antibiotics, both of which are dangerous as hell to take. One masks the pain and the other teaches your body to fight antibiotics, so if you truly need them, they no longer work and you die. Your best bet, if you have an ailment that doesn't feel like it's about to kill you, would be to find a specialist. Not that a specialist are intelligent people, but they at least know better than a mid-level or a doctor how to treat the thing you go and see them for. This has yet another grift, in order to see a specialist and have your insurance pay for it, they require you go to a mid-level and get a scam called, "referral". What happens many times is that you end up paying more for the referral than if you had just went and saw the specialist and simply paid out of pocket. I had some pain once, went to a mid-level who tried to prescribe opioids, as that is all they are trained to do. I told them to fuck off and found a specialist. The specialist told me I needed a referral and would have to see a mid-level to get my insurance to cover it. I asked how much it would cost, he said, "$250". The fucking mid-level I had seen previously had cost me $340 out of pocket, with insurance. I told the specialist I would just pay the $250 out of pocket. The specialist had me fixed up in a single visit and after a follow up a pain I had suffered with for years was completely gone.