>Expertise also occurs in some specific context. Today's industrial medicine 
>means that your doctor has at most 15 minutes to spend figuring out what 
>your problem is. Because of the current mind/body split ideology, chances 
>are that your doctor will never touch you (if he/she can help it).

The 15 minutes, yes. Actually that's a long session. The no-touching, that I 
have never experienced.

So, there are a lot of "external factors"
>that affect the effectiveness of any expert...even honest, well-meaning 
>ones.
>
>When the professions close ranks and white-wash the narrowness or failure 
>of their practices, the only way to question that is from the outside.
>

All true.

jks

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