Along these lines I've heard it said that "Doctors don't heal anyone. The get them to the point where their bodies can heal themselves." Sure, there are some

Along these lines I've heard it said that "Doctors don't heal anyone. The get them to the point where their bodies can heal themselves." Sure, there are some exceptions where the body literally can't heal itself, like reattaching something, but the sentiment holds true most of the time. In another discussion bred from boredom where some friends and I were trying to define entire fields of study in a single sentence (Economics is the allocation of scarcity) one doctor said, "Medicine is about controlling swelling." His response (he was a surgeon) kind of made your point that we imagine that doctors are fixing things and he is saying that he spent most of his time trying to get the body to make it better and not worse.