[baoyu]

There’s a good reason why doctors have difficulties with rare diseases—which is, of course, the rarity itself.

> In medical school, aspiring doctors spend a few minutes at most on these relatively unusual conditions.

It would be unethical to spend a lot of time studying these conditions while many more people suffer from the more frequent ones.

Sooner than later, we’ll be able to solve, say, depression reliably via pills or vaccines or whatever, and then more rare diseases will be studied much better (likewise, there was little point in spending much time on depression when smallpox was around).

[maratd]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

> About 1.5% of children in the United States (one in 68) are diagnosed with ASD as of 2014

That's not rare.

Doctors have difficulty with ASD because it's triggered by genetics, but also by environment, and manifests uniquely in every individual.