Honestly

Honestly, my decision to go into the medical field was multi-factorial, but one of the features of the field I found so attractive was the ability to find an ultimate diagnosis for someone with symptoms they are not all too familiar with. To find clarity to a puzzle that seemed all together impossible to solve.
What's causing that burning pain in your chest after you eat a large burger and fries?
Oh it's reflux, caused by your weak LES and your love of smoking and beer. We can help you with a PPI and counseling for your 'risky behavior.'
But so many problems are not cut and dry....so many!
My current pt. has a lot of different and newly onset medical problems, and his major problem we cannot even properly diagnose. We performed the proper diagnostic test, an LP, and the results were negative, but we are still treating him for presumed GBS. I thought so much more of medicine would be- here are the symptoms- here are the test to do- and then this is how you treat the disease.
Not the case- just like in life, there is are so few black and white things---everythings in shades of grey. There are no more +/-; just 1-99% confidence with large error margins.