You pose a question whose answer is so varied and complex that the word "depends"can be inserted often.
First depends on how and where doctors were trained.
Second depends on how and where the doctor works i.e their policies
Third depends on how the insurance company involved interacts with the doctor.
Fourth depends on how the government interacts with the doctor.
Basically far too many agencies and insurance companies are interfering with the doctor/patient relationship. The demand for a paperless medical record is a good thing but it has compromised the relationship because the doctor is so involved with recording the event that the doctor has little time even to study a patient's body language, essential in medical investigation because the doctor is on a computer. A side bar the cost for this technology is very expensive.
You made mention of salt and because of warnings went to a slat substitute.
A recent study now indicates that too little salt actually increases chances of heart attack and stroke. Experts also claim now that meat (beef) protein is essential and that people who do not eat meat risk becoming anemic. I do not advance n argument here but just want to illustrate that experts are sometimes the problem
Personally i believe until the government began meddling with our health care system that while ot perfect it was better than the rest. Now with ACA
the health industry is getting turned upside down which has created problems for everyone and will cost policyholders much more with more stop losses such deductibles coinsurnce and premium. Welcome to utopia
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