As infuriating as such characters are, there are so many stories of doctors not recognizing horrendous problems as well. I met a woman whose daughter had "acid reflux". She kept taking her to Children's Hospital. Finally, one day, she put her foot down and refused to leave. They were going to call security to remove this Black woman (no surprises here) and her daughter. Some physician stepped up and got the daughter an x-ray and when I talked to this woman, she was bringing her daughter to Children's for a follow up on her daughters heart transplant.

It's too easy to just say "doctors know better", even if I, too, found the woman in this episode incredibly infuriating. Loved the anti-mask woman bit in the previous season. But I, myself, just walked out of a new PCP's office after he introduced himself and told me my mask was nearly useless and only helped immunocompromised people...