I am alive today because I refuse to treat medical professionals as Oracles or Authorities, and instead treat them as regular people I hire to do a job, just people with typical human failings like I find in that idiot I see in my shaving mirror every morning.
I am willing to be treated by a Catholic doctor even though I find her church’s history repellent and its doctrine antihuman. She gives me prescriptions I need; she is a government approved gatekeeper who functions to prevent unauthorized healing, and I need passage through that gate. I don’t claim to like her, she is unpleasant and narrow-minded.
I am willing to be treated by an antivaxxer Scientologist chiropractor even though I find his church’s history laughable and their current economic practices socially damaging and subversive. He can fix my back, neck and foot pain quickly and without medication or surgery, which no mainstream physician can do (many have tried). I respect his expertise at bone and muscle manipulation - he is incredibly skilled - but I see no need to extend that respect to encompass his ludicrous beliefs and selfish viewpoint.
Just so, I am willing to use chiropractery, TENS, herbalism, directed prayer and other heretical modes of healing if they work. I don’t care very deeply about the philosophies, rationalizations and explanations of the humans peddling them; sure, I’d prefer to spend my money only with perfect transcendant beings who enlighten and enrich everyone around them by their mere existence, but those seem to be very short on the ground, in fact I’ve yet to meet one.
