> But instead, people can go years slowly dying from something that they could fix with a few pills from the corner pharmacy, if a doctor would deign to "tinker

> But instead, people can go years slowly dying from something that they could fix with a few pills from the corner pharmacy, if a doctor would deign to "tinker" rather than working from theory. Sure! Except the corner pharmacy has literally thousands of different pills in it. How does your daring doctor know where to start? How do they know where to go next, if that doesn't work?