Am I just numbing people?

Recently started my first job after residency here. It's outpatient, pretty good situation for me, they pay decently, give good clinical/administrative support, nobody's breathing down my neck to bang through 4 patients an hour. Most patients don't feel the need to talk to me for a full 30 minutes at every follow-up, which is fine. But I sometimes can't shake the feeling that I'm just giving people pills to help them cope with a reality that is 1) collectively designed by all of us and 2)... Am I just numbing people?
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