> Unfortunately, without a proven treatment, there isn't a lot else for doctors to do.
Figure out a treatment? Or at least establish what is actually wrong?
Figure out a treatment? Or at least establish what is actually wrong?
That'd be the "refer you to participate in a study" part. Your average medical practitioner does not do research.
> Or at least establish what is actually wrong?
How? Based on what? That's the whole point for something like this; the medical consensus does not know how to diagnose it.
Depends on how you look at doing research. If I keep going back to my GP with various ailments we’ll keep trying things until we either figure out what is wrong and fix it, or we find some kind of medicinal dose that makes the pain/discomfort manageable.
I don’t think that falls under ‘suggest things at random’, ‘make the patient go away’ or ‘refer to a study’.