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Not really. Doctors are trained to recognise symptoms and match the therapy to the symptoms. They of course know mechanism of some (well understood) afflictions. But many are not that well understood and yet therapies for them exist that help some patients with those symptoms. Then when asked about the causes or the mechanism doctors just act like all humans do. They repeat rumours they heard.


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