What boggles my mind is that in most states you can't get blood labs without a doctors order. You're literally prohibited from determining the level of substances in your blood unless a doctor allows it. Arizona is one exception.

The analogy I always use is imagine if your couldn't buy a car unless a lawyer thought the purchase / financing agreements were beneficial to you. That would be bizarre to us.

How one Order / Guild grabbed this much control is just strange. This is literally a creature of the 20th century. It didn't exist in this governmental form prior to then.