> people should be in a position to report issues they discover in the course of their lives What does this mean? Which issues? How many thousands of diseases

> people should be in a position to report issues they discover in the course of their lives What does this mean? Which issues? How many thousands of diseases are there? I have a friend who has low level of energy, everyone was calling him lazy his entire life. He thought thats just how life is. He cannot compare how it feel to be him with how it feel to be someone else. I convinced him to see a doctor about this at the age of 25. First doctor didnt take him seriously, didnt want to do any tests. The complains are very non-spesific. maybe you are lazy, maybe you are depressed. After weeks of fighting the medical system he discovered that he had a digestive issue, which led to low level of iron and low level of enegy. His entire life he was suffering from an easily treatable problem. Imagine he treated this at the age of 12, how many sports did he miss out on, how much academic achievement was missed, maybe his career and life trajectory would be different. A friend of mine struggled with back pain for 3 years. He coupst find the cause. It got so bad, he thought he'd become disabled. He left UK and went back to Romania to have support of his family. Suffenly in Romania he started getting better. Turned out it was vitamin D defficiency. I started taking Vitamin D agressively, 2,000 units daily, 5 times the recommended amount by the NHS. After taking it for 6 months I went private and did a first vitamin D test in my life - my level is 1/3 of normal. So how doea one know what is normal, if most people gp their entire life without ever doing a full blood test