Why are you skeptical of the medical community?

It seems like people are increasingly skeptical of the motives and effectiveness of western, science-based medical researchers and practitioners and everything associated with them. As a scientist, I don’t really understand why.

Has your trust been eroded by high-profile scandals involving pharmaceutical companies? If so, which ones, and do you separate the actions of the specific companies guilty of dishonesty from the rest of the medical community, or do you assume they’re all in cahoots together?

Have you personally had negative experiences with doctors failing to diagnose or treat your medical condition effectively? Something else entirely? What has caused you personally to become skeptical of medicine, of doctors, of medical research, etc?

Where did the rhetoric that drug companies want to keep people sick so they can keep making money come from? Was there a scandal in which this language was actually used by someone in a pharmaceutical company? Do we have actual reason to believe that the majority of companies think and behave this way?

For bonus points, what do you think the scientific and medical community could do differently to restore trust? Finally, what can we as a society do to ensure that pharmaceutical companies are used for good (treating and curing illness) rather than evil?