Case study reporting is a thing doctors occasionally do, if a documented severe issue significantly resolved after an unconventional, novel cure that still entails a plausible working mechanism.
But I think the issue here is often that doctors aren’t sure what it was in the first place, and if it resolved spontaneously, which does happen.
And I think a lot of patient solutions work indirectly. The patient will say “I quit gluten” or “I started yoga” or “I used a cream with x”, but this entails a long sequence of other changes as well, which the patient may not necessarily be aware of, and which may have made the actual difference.
And because a lot of these solutions are done by the patient, hence not blind, there are massive placebo effect distortions.
Case study reporting is a thing doctors occasionally do, if a documented severe issue significantly resolved after an unconventional, novel cure that still entails a plausible working mechanism.
But I think the issue here is often that doctors aren’t sure what it was in the first place, and if it resolved spontaneously, which does happen.
And I think a lot of patient solutions work indirectly. The patient will say “I quit gluten” or “I started yoga” or “I used a cream with x”, but this entails a long sequence of other changes as well, which the patient may not necessarily be aware of, and which may have made the actual difference.
And because a lot of these solutions are done by the patient, hence not blind, there are massive placebo effect distortions.