estradiol at the very least needs to be OTC and manufacturers need to take supply seriously
much like stimulants requiring the most hoops to jump through, things that make hoop jumping easier shouldnt require hoops to get
but, yanno, more visits means more money for doctors so they try to maximise them
gatekeepers are more worthy of contempt -- a lot of gatekeeping is about maximizing visits -- profiting off your psychology of sunk cost
we're a captive audience bc we dont know if new doctors will be a fight, so we stick with our not great ones, and they know it