Another possible failure mode I have registered is that there are sometimes effective therapies that require strong compliance from the patient over a long time

Another possible failure mode I have registered is that there are sometimes effective therapies that require strong compliance from the patient over a long time. Doctors cannot rely on the patients so much and they don't prescribe those therapies - but there are patients who would prefer to take them and have all the will power to do it. I presume people reading material like this comment thread often do have that will power. It would be helpful to catalogue all the possible failure modes of the mainstream (and not mainstream) medicine. By the way https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dffcfe https://medium.com/@zby/rational-patient-community-6d3617dff... are my musings about this.