I do think that ordering and charging me for test that will never get looked at seem unethical.

Because my experience with doctors has been pretty bad I tend to avoid them. I don't have a doctor, so when I get sick I end up relying on a doctor I don't know usually at the first place I can get into or the emergency room. I bet it's a shitty way to choose a doctor and ends up enhancing my fear of them.

I don't care if a doctor has a nice bedside manner, just like a I don't care if my mechanic is friendly. The only thing I need is competent care.

I'd certainly be dead today without modern medicine but I don't really think my Doctor can claim much of the credit for me being alive today, that would be like me taking credit for fermentation when I get someone drunk (bartender).

Being really busy isn't a sufficient excuse for not doing ones job well. I understand that people will be misdiagnosed and that even the best doctor in the world will do so but it doesn't excuse not looking at the test results and realizing that you have put a patient in dire peril, out of work for a few months, or killed them.