We boomers have learned from personal experience or from the anecdotes of others, that no doctor in the world can be trusted 100% to definitively know anything.
This is the real medical news of our age and age group.
Doctors are human and imperfectly so.
Those who came before us still approach the doctor as God.
We don't.
In some real cases, we are just as likely as an expert to solve the mysteries of our physical idiosyncracies and symptoms.
Stunningly, we sometimes have even deeper knowledge of our own bodies that do the medical professionals.
Yet, here's the disclaimer.
Just because this is possible doesn't mean we don't need the support of those who have academically studied the body and are deemed in charge of the physical realm.
We are at our best a team with our (hopefully) brilliant doctors.
That's all I'm saying.
By the way, if you ever are inclined to study what a tick looks like, don't do it at night.
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