> Very few drugs we have do anything at all but cover up the symptoms. Isn’t that akin to “Treating the symptoms”? Eg. In case of most common viral infections,

> Very few drugs we have do anything at all but cover up the symptoms. Isn’t that akin to “Treating the symptoms”? Eg. In case of most common viral infections, you literally can’t do anything but treat the symptoms. > They prescribe the same thing to the same set of symptoms basically every time, without much capacity to take in the nuances of some condition. Could it be because statistically “trivial cases that they, in their practice, have treated numerous times” occur more frequently than rare cases? (I’m speculating).