My mother never liked nor trusted doctors.
After my sister was born she never went back to a doctor again until six days before she died at age 77. She was into natural alternatives and health food.
One day she had symptoms that were too bad to ignore and we finally convinced her to see a doctor. He found lung cancer. She died six days later.
Which is EXACTLY the way she would have WANTED to live and leave her life.
That was her right as an adult in an allegedly free country.
Since she generally avoided the health care system it was foolish to force her to pay for a lot of insurance.
She got throat cancer. With aggressive treatment it was in remission. She found herself in a nursing home, with the full regimen of scheduling including group physical therapy classes. After one class, the PT asked her if she was glad that they had exciting group activities that would get her healthy, (like sitting in a circle in wheel chairs and bouncing a beach ball to each other). My mother's response was "Hell No", went to bed, and died soon after.
Mom was imperfect, for sure. But now that it's in the past, I have to say "way to go Mom". Nobody told her how to live, right up to when she moved on.