"Run a diagnostic on you" is a fair summary of what primary care doctors do. It's hard because the human body is complicated, often unintuitive, and most of us

"Run a diagnostic on you" is a fair summary of what primary care doctors do. It's hard because the human body is complicated, often unintuitive, and most of us need coaching to explain even our own experiences with the required precision. (My PCP saved me from a misdiagnosis once because I incorrectly told her I'd been waking up "wheezing" - apparently that term refers to a specific whistling sound and not general breathing problems.)