Common Sense is Usually Wrong - The Life of a Hotel Doctor

"I have to let this run its course…"

Seeing smoke pour out of your car's exhaust, no one explains that the engine is repairing itself by expelling bad things. Yet plenty of guests believe that their vomiting or diarrhea is the body's attempt to cleanse itself. In fact, it's a simple malfunction. It's usually OK to suppress it.

"I can walk on it, so I know it's not broken."

It turns out that the fibula, one of two bones in the lower leg, doesn't bear weight. You walk on your tibia. You can walk with a broken fibula.

"Fever is my body's way of fighting an infection."

So taking Tylenol or aspirin must prolong an illness. Does it? Well, no… In the distant past, doctors treated a few serious diseases by putting patients in a hot box to raise their temperature. It didn't work very well. To tell the truth, doctors don't know what a fever accomplishes.

"I've been under a lot of stress…" or "I haven't been eating right…" or "I went out without my jacket…"

You caught that flu from another person. Nature plays no favorites. It gives viruses as much right to exist as you. No matter how healthy you are, they'll infect you for a while and then move on.