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> Which is a complex way of saying "we don't know the root cause of why [...]" A thing a lot of people don't seem to be aware about modern medicine. We can tre
by folkrav 3y ago
> Which is a complex way of saying "we don't know the root cause of why [...]"
A thing a lot of people don't seem to be aware about modern medicine. We can treat many things, we know a whole lot more than we used to, but a lot of this knowledge is often incomplete. Many of the body's systems are very badly understood. Treatment for most of those issues is symptom management more than anything else.
- SoftTalker 3y agoThis is true. We know experimentally that certain drugs are helpful for certain symptoms. In some cases we have some idea of why they work, but far more often than you might think, it's a case of "we know it works but really don't know why."