If we're talking public perception, definitely doctors. I find it fascinating how people seem to lose all their mental faculties and turn into obedient puppy dogs the second they enter a doctor's office. Let's say you have a person that's obese and depressed. A doctor will prescribe them a pill after a rushed, 5-minute appointment where the doctor barely listens to them. The patient then gains 20 lbs and is shocked because they didn't research the pill that they took, and the doctor of course didn't bother mentioning the side-effect. Somehow the person never blames the doctor for prescribing an antidepressant known for weight gain to an obese person and never bothering to mention it could lead to that. If a doctor doesn't know why someone is sick, they never acknowledge their lack of knowledge, they simply pivot to gaslighting the patient and accusing them of having anxiety. They get away with that behaviour because society has very much put medicine on a pedestal and enshrined the concept of the doctor as something to obey unquestionably. In parallel to that, the underlying motivation for choosing a career as a doctor is often a fantasy of power, either sadistic of voyeuristic, as medicine gives the practitioner license to look, touch, and control, with their commands expected to be obeyed unquestionably. So the meek patient conditioned to obey often meets with a physician that's very much happy to bask in that power trip as much as possible.
