Years later doctors treated me poorly for other things too. Two quacks insisted on giving me open heart surgery, I refused and got another opinion. Then a number of doctors started me down the road for kidney transplant. I turned the problem around by going on an artichoke diet that totally upset medical theory. The body is a wonderful self healing chemical mechanism if you treat it in a timely fashion.
Money does play a huge part in the medical care the general public gets.
I knew of a case just a week ago where a young 23 year old man died because of the hesitation he and his young wife had about the cost of going to the hospital, to treat his viral infection. They thought they could treat his condition at home with over the counter drugs. I see isles of people selecting over the counter remedies. Knowing full well they are trying to avoid the expensive cost of getting well. But in the case of the young man who died, that was false economy.