# [[🧑‍⚕️Doctors are not Perfect]] #Health #Medicine #Advice #Science #Knowledge #Perspectives We get frustrated that different doctors and health experts often have different, sometimes opposing, advice/opinions. We think: "it's science! Can't they agree on something?" A car is a machine with a structure very similar to a body. A machine means we know 100% how it works, and how to optimize it, and you still get opposing opinions from experts on certain issues. A human body (human or non-human), is extremely complex, and every individual's experience, DNA, baseline, is unique. It's very normal for different health experts to give different/opposing advice. How to deal with this as a patient? You need to pick one of two routes. The easy one is to pick a healthcare professional you trust, and just do what he/she says. If you have trust issues, follow the other route: take multiple professional opinions, but then do your own learning, reading, watching, and then decide. This is a harder route as it requires some experience in researching and evaluating information. Doctors are not perfect, and medicine is not a "holy science". Just like every profession, MOST doctors are average or even slightly below average. A minority is bad at their job, and another minority is above average, and a tiny fraction, is extraordinary. I can even argue that medicine is one of the fields where "bad" experts are more common than other fields. Many doctors remain doctors because they are stuck in a profession they invested a lot of time, effort, and money in. There is a lot of shame and dilemmas in quitting the medicine field if at one point you decided you don't want to be part of it anymore. > [!seealso] Related Thoughts > >- [[Doctors Can Become History]] >- [[💊 Tips on Mental Health Medications]] >- [[🔬 Science Is Always Partially Wrong]] >- [[Lebanese Medical Myth]] >- [[The Unknown Layers Of Health]] Published: June 21, 2024