@DrBill I am not sure what it is. I think it has to do with doctors look to information in books to answer a question, rather than hypothesize there might be a different something going on. It’s a double edged sword, because it is great we have people, doctors, who can learn all that medical information. But, when a person presents with unusual symptoms, or a lesser known problem, or does not quite fit into a diagnosis, too many doctors either still try to fit the square patient into the round diagnosis, and fail to use all that incredible knowledge they have to deduce some other possibilities. I know legal crap gets in the way.
For instance. I recentky was talking to a med student who is specializing in ID. He was telling me about chronic Lymes disease and how doctors are taking advantage of patients, giving them mega IV doses of antibiotics, because the disease, bacterium is no longer present. I asked if the patients get better. He didn’t know. I said, “well, if they are getting better, maybe there is a second infection not yet discovered.” He looked at me like I had said something amazing. Really? Why do doctors think everything is already understood or discovered? Medical science changes its mind all the time as we learn more.
I have a chronic condition, you can visibly observe the changes when I take certain antibiotics. It is not just how I feel, it is drastic how different the affected tissues look. Some doctors want to believe it is antiinflammatory properties of the antibiotics. Why? The more likely answer is it is killing something. Plus, the antibiotic that works for me is not known to have an antiinflammatory effect. Even those that supposedly do, I still think it is killing something. More and more we discover infection causes disease.