I have an over-literate under-educated mother who has a home-spun German cure for everything and a grumpy mechanical engineer for a father... ...and I'm a prog

I have an over-literate under-educated mother who has a home-spun German cure for everything and a grumpy mechanical engineer for a father... ...and I'm a programmer. My parents never took me to the hospital/doctor for anything. This caused problems a couple times, but I was fortunate enough to be an otherwise healthy individual. Pretty strong internal distrust of doctors still, partly because most doctors I've encountered don't seem to understand how to map statistics onto their mental pattern-matchers. I go to a doctor if it might lead to something permanent, otherwise I wait it out.