An incompetent doctor with a script pad is dangerous. Just like an incompetent police officer with a firearm. They should be held to a high level of accountability and I'm not willing to easily dismiss such action as human fallibility as he easily could have deferred his diagnosis to the specialist who was in the same building. It was months before I ended up seeing the specialist who corrected the prescription because I wrongly trusted the original doctors judgement. He made no indication he was just making a guess at what was wrong with me and that I should speak to a specialist as soon as possible.

If they aren't competent enough for their high-stakes job they should be doing something else where their fallibility isn't harming peoples lives. And the inaccurate over-prescribing and was only part of my negative experience with the physician in question.