What has bothered me about medical practice -- at least and especially mainstream medical practice in the U.S. -- is that there is so much professionally declared "It can't be. That doesn't exist. Etc." until the evidence becomes overwhelming to the contrary.
That is, that absence of evidence is taken for and prescriptively treated as absolute evidence of absence.
"Cancer is not contagious." Well, as I seem to recall from recent comments of an expert in the field, we are now looking at upwards of 30% of types of cancer being tied to an infectious agent.
Not yet having read the OP link, I already recall that researchers are now, per popular/mainstream reporting, looking at, among other things, the human biome (symbiotic organisms such as microflora) as likely playing a significant role in health including mental health.
First, it was "all in your head". Then, it was "your genetics" -- and new classes of pills.
Now, finally, some acknowledgement that if your environment sucks, lo and behold, this may physically, and not just "psychically", affect your well being.
In summary, treat the patient, not the prescribed domain of a medical profession whose institutions have more than a bit of sometimes blindered self-interest.
That is, that absence of evidence is taken for and prescriptively treated as absolute evidence of absence.
"Cancer is not contagious." Well, as I seem to recall from recent comments of an expert in the field, we are now looking at upwards of 30% of types of cancer being tied to an infectious agent.
Not yet having read the OP link, I already recall that researchers are now, per popular/mainstream reporting, looking at, among other things, the human biome (symbiotic organisms such as microflora) as likely playing a significant role in health including mental health.
First, it was "all in your head". Then, it was "your genetics" -- and new classes of pills.
Now, finally, some acknowledgement that if your environment sucks, lo and behold, this may physically, and not just "psychically", affect your well being.
In summary, treat the patient, not the prescribed domain of a medical profession whose institutions have more than a bit of sometimes blindered self-interest.