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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

—CARL SAGAN

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

—JOHN DONNE

I understand that I don’t really know where I am on that gluten spectrum because I haven’t had any tests. And the other stuff is treated like hocus-pocus. So individuals draw their own wacky conclusions. I’d really like to know what a scientist thinks about it and what I should do.

(JILL, 50)

There are many sources today for health information and many reasons individuals do not go to a doctor to get it. Many people will see a doctor only in order to resolve a physical ailment that has either disrupted their life, will not resolve itself in the over-the-counter (OTC) drug aisles of the pharmacy, or because their spouse/child/friend/sister, etc. insisted that “it’s time to get to the bottom of this.” In fact, many do not see a doctor until their symptoms have seriously affected their ability to work, travel, or sleep. And even then, some arrive with a list of answers before asking the physician what they think is the matter.

When was the last time you:

 Self-diagnosed from Internet information?

 Self-treated with OTC drugs and/or diet?

 Gave a doctor a diagnosis before you were examined?

Some people self-diagnose or seek alternative practitioners when medical tests fail to reveal a cause for ongoing symptoms and/or prescribed drugs fail to cure them. And many of them accept a food-related “diagnosis” as the solution to the problem. Given the current focus on foods as cause and cure, far too many roads lead to gluten. If you are looking to prove that gluten is the cause of your physical symptoms, you will undoubtedly find ammunition to justify this conclusion. As the scientist and mathematician John Lubbock noted: “What we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.”

But if you type “gas, bloating, and fatigue” into your browser, you will find more than 90 other medical and psychiatric conditions on WebMD that cause the same symptoms. And your health depends on isolating, testing for, and treating the correct underlying condition.