Yes. Itâs an old observation Iâve made already decades ago: the more you know about a field or subject, the more you tend to doubt and question the âexpertsâ. This is true literally in any area. If you happen to know a ton about, say, specific area of medicine, suddenly you realize that your primary physician doesnât have a clue, or your cardiologist knows less about cholesterol metabolism than you who has been researching and reading about it for years and so on. The more you know, the fewer âexpertsâ there are who are worth a damn. But itâs the same with everything: you trust the opinion of that lawyer, economist, businessman, historian, tourist guide etc., only because you know little about the subject. The moment you yourself know a lot about the subject, you realize how poor the quality of the âexpertâ is.
But itâs hardly surprising. Think about people you know. Genuinely brilliant peope are rare, just statistically. Most are âaverageâ⊠because thatâs whatâs most common. And âaverageâ is not very good. In any specialty - business, law, medicine etc., itâs the 1% at best who are good, the rest, the âaverageâ lawyer, doctor, programmer, plumber is going to be somewhere in the bottom 90%. Not good. Like that old joke goes: what do you call the student at the bottom of the class in medical school? - Doctor!
The human body is complicated. The number of things that can go wrong, or work suboptimally is essentially limitless. There is so much we donât know about how the human body works. And our tools are still so inadequate. Now, if you have a condition that deviates even a little from the most common presentation, the average MD is going to be stumped, because they work off of their decision tree standard of care, and you fall between the cracks. You are the one who can focus on your body full time, so you are in a position to know your body best - that is why you must educate yourself, and be your own health advocate. You cannot rely on a doctor. Heâs got neither the time, bandwidth or education to handle your particuar condition. For me, for a long time now, I only go to my doctor to get tests I donât have to pay for, and to keep my insurance by doing the scheduled interventions, vaccinations and so on. But I donât bother to ask my physician about any condition I may have at the moment. I buy my meds from India, and get tests from LabCorp and the like. Maybe one day AI can step in, and itâll be superior to most doctors.
