Doctor or Detective

Thinking today about how the practice of medicine is a process of elimination. Symptoms present like clues to what ails you, you visit the doc, he/she checks out your symptoms and make an educated guess what is wrong with you & how to treat it. When they make the wrong guess, you have to go back then they take another guess. Sometimes they order tests (these give you a better chance at being diagnosed correctly) The key here is hoping your doctor is a good enough detective to order the right tests, and interpret your bodily clues (symptoms) to effectively solve your problem