In Germany such doctors are all over the place and embedded within the statutory health care system. It was a huge shock to me, when I first arrived here. Their health care system has been a huge let down, in general, but this was beyond crazy to me. Sometimes, if you are not careful you go to a pharmacy or a doctor’s clinic and you get prescribed snake oil voodoo medicine, if you are not careful.
No need to single out Americans. Most of the developed world, including a lot of the “nobler than thou” European peoples that some Americans love to worship, are equally complicit.