One of the many problems with modern ‘medical science’ is that if you acquire an illness that isn’t on the books… in general, you will be either ignored, told something that »is on the books is wrong with you (i.e. catch-all diagnosis), ignored, or told you’re imagining it.

I’ve known a number of people who actually »died of diseases they were told they could not have because these diseases ‘didn’t exist’.

In this case, existence is equivalent to ‘have been previously catalogued’… but why would anyone ever be inclined to think that all possible diseases have been catalogued? It’s formally impossible for this to be true.

What is desperately needed is medical training and intelligence that prepares practitioners to encounter illnesses that are unknown, because the nature of illness … in general… has a scope that vastly exceeds that which ‘is known’ and ‘has been catalogued’. So, too, the symptoms and sequelae of »known diseases.