[Jim Noble]

the vast majority of medical conditions that patients experience are simple problems that don’t require a doctor to diagnose or treat. More complicated conditions are easily referred to specialists

Once you figure out that they're complicated, that is.

Anybody who plays MS Flight Simulator can land a 747 on a calm wind sunny day if the pilot has a heart attack.

The problem is a crossing weather front as you clear 2000 feet AGL on the way in. THEN you need a pilot.

[Mom MD]

there are many “simple” conditions that arent so simple when you look closer.

[allendale]

The public, saturated with bogus alternative remedies, quacks on TV and phonies writing bizarre books extolling nonsense have come to believe that real medical expertise does not really matter. Why there is a remedy for anything! The harsh reality is that unless a medical diagnosis is promptly and accurately made at the beginning of an illness, treatments and referrals are not made in a timely outcome and the results are often gruesome. The public not only suffers from political delusions but has been conditioned to accept health fantasies as well.

[aquila48]

“The problem is a crossing weather front as you clear 2000 feet AGL on the way in. THEN you need a pilot.”

You don’t think the flight simulator “pilot” can discern that condition and call the real pilot?

It’s somewhat similar to seeing a GP who refers you to a specialist when he recognizes that the problem is beyond his abilities.