Yeah, after all these years we still know very little about the body. Almost nothing, really, in the grand scheme of things. Most of the time the best thing we

Yeah, after all these years we still know very little about the body. Almost nothing, really, in the grand scheme of things. Most of the time the best thing we can do is literally rest and hope for the best. And this is compounded by a major misalignment between expert goals and lay expectations. The great misconception of medicine is that people think it's about healing when almost none of it is directed at healing, only at putting your body in a better position to heal itself. Medical intervention, nearly universally, aims to destroy or rearrange things considered to be anomalous by presence or arrangement. That's true from antibiotics to chemotherapy to appendectomies to skin grafts to casting broken bones. And if there's no bone to move or bacteria to kill or appendix to extract, there's nothing to do but destroy the pain. The healing is actually always done by your body. Doctors don't make your body better. They only make your body less worse than normal. And those sound like they should be logically the same, but they aren't. And then on top of all that, bodies are simultaneously both magical and complete, utter, absolute garbage. So you have people who live in constant pain, extreme pain, blinding, crippling, exhausting pain, and we either don't know why, or we don't know how to fix it, or the process for fixing it is too dangerous.