>there are sadly a lot of doctors who don't understand science This is probably partly due to the history of medicine. It's not like engineering, which is fun

>there are sadly a lot of doctors who don't understand science This is probably partly due to the history of medicine. It's not like engineering, which is fundamentally the practice of applied science. Medicine came from a very different path, basically like voodoo or witchcraft, and has been struggling to become more scientific. Many fields of medicine are fundamentally unscientific, such as chiropractic. Also, doctors (mostly) aren't scientists or researchers at all: they're basically what non-medical engineers and scientists would consider "technicians". They use tools and knowledge the scientists and engineers have found or made, and apply them to individual problems (i.e. patients). Of course, it doesn't help at all that the systems doctors work on (human bodies) are ridiculously complex, and themselves not at all a product of engineering. And on top of that, every human is somewhat different, so things that work on one don't work on others. Personally, I think the entire field of western medicine, though it's still better than the ridiculously unscientific forms of traditional medicine it competes with, needs some work to improve its scientific foundations.