I work in a medical school though I am not a physician. I don't trust the medical profession and their training to consider prevention, to consider the whole body or the body-mind link, and I don't expect compassion. I also don't trust the medical profession NOR THEIR SOCIETIES to give correct advice considering the whole picture. I don't trust physicians to read the scientific literature well and act accordingly. The dermatologists recommend slashing SPF 30-50 on your whole skin every time you go out, while the nutritionists, and Alzheimer prevention and many others suggest that lack of Vitamin D is the source of many problems and suggest to go out at least 20 min without sun protection each day. Can't they coordinate? No! Now we have 10% of Caucasians and more than 50% of Asian Indian Americans Vit D deficient.

Every position a baby can be put down has been recommended as the one and only correct position in the past 30 years.

There are many other examples.

But if I have a really strange symptom, I trust the specialists, and if it is a common one, the primary care doctor to diagnose correctly. Prevention is in our hands, and may become a new specialty in the future