You're a bit downvoted, but I agree with your point. Wish that doctors and those in the medical field had a bit a more humility about the complexity of the human body.
From everything we know so far it seems there is no part of the body that is not able to heal to some extent, unless that part has been completely removed, (and even then the body is able to make amends somehow; there was a story on HN some months ago about how cut off fingers are able to regenerate in some cases). Now the rate of healing might be very slow, but the healing is real.
> Wish that doctors and those in the medical field had a bit a more humility about the complexity of the human body.
This is pretty silly to me. All medical knowledge can potentially be proven wrong. Are doctors supposed to add an asterisk to every single thing they say?
They are supposed to not discount verifiable information just because it goes against dogma. In particular, they should be careful not to suggest to patients that certain damage to the body is always permanent and thus there is nothing they can do to promote their own healing.
In any case I should have made clear that I was referring mostly to researchers, not your run of the mill practicing doctor.
From everything we know so far it seems there is no part of the body that is not able to heal to some extent, unless that part has been completely removed, (and even then the body is able to make amends somehow; there was a story on HN some months ago about how cut off fingers are able to regenerate in some cases). Now the rate of healing might be very slow, but the healing is real.