Opinion | They Feel Bugs Inside Them. Doctors Don’t Know What They Are Either. - The New York Times

My problem with this article/essay: it neglects to state that most of the time in cases of “the difficult diagnosis” it’s the patient who is the issue. Not the physician. The patient could be exaggerating, oversensitive, flat out lies or has an underlying psychological disorder or delusion. Many times the patient can’t give a clear, coherent description of their symptoms. They give contradictory histories. How is this the doctor’s fault? Why is this avenue not explored by the essayist?

The underlying assumption of this essay is that “it’s the doctor’s fault” or “it’s the healthcare system’s fault”. You can’t criticize an entire profession by narratives of outliers. If these outliers were actually the norm, no one would ever go to a doctor for medical care.