The only way I can grasp the huge gap between medical fact and the dogmatic myths spewed out by doctors and slurped up by frightened patients who seek salvation and long life is to view health care through the lens of it being a religion.  Everything about our health care system and its doctor-priests is tainted by dogma.  We spend $4 trillion dollars largely ticking people into selling their bodies and souls, and a lot of cash, for the promise of cure and life.  People rarely question doctors or the medical system.  They are inundated by dogmatic proclamations on TV, by their friends and family, by doctors and agencies like the CDC and various societies (American Cancer Society, Alzheimer's Association, ect) that tell them to dive into the health care system and to ask no questions.  It's all about faith, not science, and all of it is orchestrated and financed by our medical industries from big Pharma to the hospital lobby to physician organizations. That fact that our bloated Medical-Industrial complex is fueled by self-serving doctors and drug companies and hospitals and other agents of dogmatic deception, the fact that it has led to shorter lives and more chronic illness, that fact that science proves that it does not work, none of that deters people from believing their smart and caring doctor-priests and from tasking the Eucharist and adhering to the requisite rituals that they are assured will give them salvation and ultimately eternal life.  Thus will we unravel the religiosity of health care, the danger of believing doctors and others whose own goals verge far from yours, and the huge gap between science and the medical dogma being sold to us under the guise of being necessary.  See my most recent blog about this, and I have more books on the way!!