Personally I’ve had this eczema where I found the correct cream by reading the research on it, and later found out this is also the official advice. Most doctors here just prescribe an old cream out of habit, that contains hormones and often creates worse side effects.

But bigger diagnosis mistake was a close family member diagnosed with a very bad gen defect that would cause liver failure within a few years. He wanted the kid to start taking unpleasant medicines to be sure. He told us to get bloodwork done, but in the end couldn’t find enough genes that had the mistakes. He wanted to do even more bloodwork, but I clearly told him he was going in uncharted territory, after doing the extra bloodwork he had to come back and agree he was mostly wrong.

He was a well intentioned doctor, but these academics doctors get obsessed with analysing and diagnosis without always understanding the costs for the patients. Although they try to.