Faith, Hope And Chemistry. It’s very easy to have your rather positive notions of doctors annihilated, you just need to have contact with the medical system about something that’s not immediately fixed by whatever the current standard of treatment is. As soon as you break through that wall, you’re into this confusing mess of appointments and drugs and being told your symptoms aren’t important and so on. This is partly because doctors are fundamentally living textbooks. Particularly in the UK, they don’t have time to think, they only have time to put together information from this enormous index they’ve compiled through years of arduous study. Anyway, this article talks about why medicine is so hard, and it made me slightly more sympathetic. A better understanding of why doctors fail so spectacularly when things start going off-piste will probably help you help them not fail so spectacularly.