Doctors used to be one of the wisest, most educated people in a small community where they likely knew everyone. They took their little black bag to your home and got to see how you lived, which gave them vast quantities of knowledge about what ailed you without having to ask a bunch of questions -- more info, in fact, than questions would yield.
Then we invented modern tests and everyone goes to the office or hospital where their machinery is and we get treated like specimens in a petri dish, not like products of our environment and lifestyle.
This is the crux or what's wrong with modern medicine. Also, some doctors don't bother to keep up with new developments in their industry.
You're a bit downvoted, but I agree with your point. Wish that doctors and those in the medical field had a bit a more humility about the complexity of the human body.
From everything we know so far it seems there is no part of the body that is not able to heal to some extent, unless that part has been completely removed, (and even then the body is able to make amends somehow; there was a story on HN some months ago about how cut off fingers are able to regenerate in some cases). Now the rate of healing might be very slow, but the healing is real.
> Wish that doctors and those in the medical field had a bit a more humility about the complexity of the human body.
This is pretty silly to me. All medical knowledge can potentially be proven wrong. Are doctors supposed to add an asterisk to every single thing they say?
They are supposed to not discount verifiable information just because it goes against dogma. In particular, they should be careful not to suggest to patients that certain damage to the body is always permanent and thus there is nothing they can do to promote their own healing.
In any case I should have made clear that I was referring mostly to researchers, not your run of the mill practicing doctor.
2023: 'new heart cell type discovered that contributes to regenerating heart muscle'