Check this out: http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
I wonder if it's similar in Canada.
We wonder why our elderly take 15 pills every morning.
Doctors are not diagnosticians anymore; there's more money in being a pill-pushing hack. They tell you "Take some of this, and if that doesn't work, come back and see me, and I'll give you something different" Most of them are not even listening to you when you're speaking. They're thinking about hitting the golf course later that afternoon or their 25 year old secretary with the DDs.
Don't pick the fly crap out of the pepper.