I've often remarked that if I (as an IT specialist) did my work the way most doctors do theirs - with the same arrogance and dismissal of my clients - I would b

I've often remarked that if I (as an IT specialist) did my work the way most doctors do theirs - with the same arrogance and dismissal of my clients - I would be out of a job. I put more care and diligence in diagnosing the malfunction of a single machine, one that can just as easily be thrown in the trash and replaced at a cost of a few thousand dollars, than a GP does dismissing an irreplaceable person's bloodwork with "you're too young for cancer". Yes, sure, the scale is completely different, the subjects are completely different, but is this not why doctors are so highly paid and specialised? Whenever you have something that's even slightly exotic it's like you're dealing with the world's worst classifier and need to average the result of several of them to get a meaningful reading. Personally, I've been diagnosed with Gilbert's Syndrome. Which is basically "your liver doesn't fully process dead red blood cells, you're one of the people where it just be like that". It's not a severe condition - I just get a bit yellow sometimes, but a diagnosis of "it just be like that" is not really a diagnosis, is it? The real diagnosis would be "you have such and such gene that causes such and such enzyme to not be synthesised in the required amount leading to your liver not processing bilirubin". Obviously most people won't need or want a diagnosis that detailed, but why not let those who do want it pay for it? Let me pay you to take better care of my health...