I know a lot of people who went into the medical field and I would say it's 80% staffed by people who went into it for the money and couldn't give less of a shit about patients, honestly. And I don't mean that in the "Oh they were burned out by all the bad patients" type of way. Maybe ER work is different, but medicine and medical care is a huge business and is run like one. There's someone who owns a hospital/private practice who has just as much stake in keeping people unhealthy as he or she does in providing medical care.