Comment by akudha

When I was a kid (not in the U.S), I remember village elders diagnosing all kinds of illnesses simply from checking one's pulse, without asking any questions or even talking. These are people with minimum education, minimum or zero exposure to science or labs or modern medicine.

Now we have all kinds of powerful, fancy machines and drugs and procedures and today's doctors still misdiagnose, mistreat even relatively simple issues.

I don't know if it is because we as humans have lost touch with nature, our own bodies or we have way more illnesses today than I was a kid 4 decades ago or what else is the reason. It is kinda depressing and mind boggling at the same time.