Complicated: Every culture has ideas about what causes disease and what it means. I generally reject unscientific ideas as simply untrue, but a physician must meet people on their own terms to be effective. A patient may think illness is "God's punishment / test", "from thinking bad thoughts", "from being weak", "caused by evil spirits" or caused by modern medical or food technology / immunizations or anything
Answered 12/30/2015
2k views
5 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
A doctor has provided 1 answer
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your question