This post was inspired by a reader who was justifiably outraged by a string of examples of egregiously incompetent care she’d gotten for a stubborn injury. It was all routine nonsense from my perspective — I hear about stories like this daily — but she was in a state of disbelief, gobsmacked: How can medical help for such a simple problem be so amateurish? What is wrong?! The main problem, of course, is that pain is rarely as “simple” as it seems. It’s not rocket science … it’...
