Annie,

It seems to me that we agree that the medical system suffers from a serious illness.

We just don't agree on the causes for it.

And, unfortunately, we don't have a good remedy.

I think that there are more and more physicians and patients that are aware of it. (which is good, as this is probably the first step-recognizing and admitting a problem).

It's not only a matter of physicians doing their job well.
It's a matter of how is their job defined, what tools are they given to do it and what are the expectations from them.

If you expect someone in less than 30 minutes to get to know a person, examine him, generate a list of possible diagnoses, order the proper tests and give proper treatment, while documenting everything in a perfect manner, you have unrealistic expectations which are bound to fail.

If you expect that person to be able to do this 10-20 times each day...

But, this is what modern society is expecting from her physicians.

Just for comparison- psychologists who only have to do the first part (get to know the person) are given 45 minutes for each session.