[BrandoElFollito]

On the other hand, your MD is going to look for the obvious, or statistically relevant, or currently prominent disease.

But they could be presented 99% probability for flu, 1% or wazalla, and that testing for wazalla means pinching your ear tout may actually be correctly diagnosed sometimes.

It is not that MDs are incompetent, it is just that when wazalla was briefly mentioned during their studies, they happened to be in the toilets and missed it. Flu was mentioned 76 times because it is common.

Disclaimer: I know medicine from "House, MD" but also witnessed a miraculous diagnosis on my father just because his MD happened to read an obscure article

(for the story, he was diagnosed with a worm-induced illness that happened one or twice a year in France in the 80's. The worm was from a beach in Brazil, and my dad never travelled to Americas. He was kindly asked to provide a sample of blood to help research in France, which he did. Finally the drug to heal him was available in one pharmacy in Paris and in Lyon. We expected a hefty cost (though it is all covered in France), it costed 5 franks or so. But we were told with my brother to keep an eye on him as he may become delusional and try to jump through the window. The poor man cold hardly blink before we were on him:) Ah, and the pills were 2cm wide, looked like they were for an elephant. And he had 5 or so to swallow)