Medic Update, anyone ever recovered?

First of all ty all for this huge and helpful community, i'm not asking to any help i'm just resigned that google wanted my website out, but i'm curious

Have anyone ever really recovered from medic update 2018?

I have a medical website, i'm a doctor, web is my passion, so ok is not my primary job and i can say i'm lucky it isn't since it goes very bad.
I've been quiet since 2018, reading, trying to improve and doing my best to recover.
I started my website in the 2010 for pure passion, i loved to share my content, putting reference and articles and stuff, but 1 august 2018 my website goes from 9000 unique visit to 200.

And since 2018 is still 200!

Oh probably for google there are better website, i'm ok with that can't complain, and i don't want to be the number one for sure, but is pretty bad to see website freshly created wth articles that are basically pure spam getting in serp above you ( me in this case)

I did almost everything to keep things clean in these years, never ever built an unnatural link ( except theglobe but that not affected only me), only links i've got come from wikipedia, and other websites that gave me a link, and some small website that i have not way to control of course because isn't mine.

The pay back to this was going to 200 unique visit.

No problem i mean, i'll keep going on with my website because i like it, but seriously i'd like to know if someone in health niche really recovered, because my opinion is that nobody did except some big name

My website isn't in english ( i'm not english native speaker too as you can see lol) so i don't have to compete against big huge names like webmd etc, but seriously is all over?

We really have to give up on health site? EAT is basically useless unless we talk about link that probably are still the only way they use to recognize a website

Writing on google webmaster forum is pretty pointless, since people that answer have no idea about how a website is made and probably they don't even own one. ( not the users but the top contributors)

3 years trying to fix what wasn't fixable, even wanted to try amp ( depserate i know), website speed, theme, pic, all, everything, all useless, all white seo stuff of course

So should i just give up? If so it's ok, but going from 8/9k unique to 200 to me is a manual penality, even if google says no

Sorry for my bad english, i do my best

First, identify your competitors for every top ranking keyword you dropped
Remember that less than the 20% of the keywords just performed the 80% of this 9K AU.
So you can clearly paint a picture of what actually dropped and work from there.

But if you were ranking for example, top 3 for a couple common diseases, just forget to rank again the exact same way you used to.

Google has switched the algorithm very harshly in all locales and its completely impossible to recover. I've also experience a similar situation, and I've gived up.
But there are a bunch of long tail keywords that perform well and all, sumed up, are more or less, similar in volume to just the one "killer" medical condition (in terms of search volume).

For example, if you were ranking for "pneumonia", you won't be able to rank for anything strictly medical related which needs a huge reputation/EAT like symptoms, causes, treatment etc...
Now you could rank for other alternatives not so simply associated like "pneumonia admission criteria". It depends a lot if you are offering popular advice, or if you focus on a more technical aspect of medical conditions you will have plenty of fields to play on. But thing won't ever be as they used to after medical update, even by using the classical EAT tips. Google has hardcoded a reputation source weblist like mayoclinic, medline, who, webmd, kidshealth... (and their translated sources) for every single country, and things are really narrow for most popular conditions.

Of course you can recover from any update till you put in efforts, if you have been hit by a update start by a audit take days or months and first fix it. Once that’s been done than post seo optimised content and strong backlinks wait back and let google do its job

SirLouen said:

But if you were ranking for example, top 3 for a couple common diseases, just forget to rank again the exact same way you used to.

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This is exactly what i think, i mean i'm at 200 unique vs 9000, since 2018 i basically lost any hopes