The prognosis

A prognosis from a GP

 may or may not come about, 

as they are self-declared soothsayers,

but as if to qualify their statement

quote that they work from statistics.

But statistics don't apply 

to the individual,only to a broad 

swathe of population with all manner 

of differing influences in their lives.

A good clairvoyant will qualify 

their prediction, by basing it on

the fact that you'll continue to

live in the manner that you're used to. 

Sadly, most GPs have no concept

of how a prognosis can actually 

be a self-fulfilling prophesy

when the individual takes it to heart.

But if the recipient is not so 'patient'

and chooses another route,

one of intelligent self-medication

according to Hippocrates himself,

he'll let medicine be his food,

and food be his medicine.

His cure may confound the GP to the extent

that he declares it must have been 

a misdiagnosis, so sure is he of the 

quality of his drug-oriented education.

But give many individuals the

name of a disease and they

often cling to it.

Ever felt better after seeing a GP?

As for the prognosis,

I have very little faith in what 

medical schools and statistics

teach doctors.

They still call me annually for a flu jab.

WHAAAAAT?

I don't want their flu ... along with 

the other toxic chemicals in that syringe.

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prognosis (n.)

1650s, "forecast of the probable course of a disease," from Late Latin prognosis, from Greek prognosis "foreknowledge," also, in medicine, "predicted course of a disease," from stem of progignōskein "come to know beforehand," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + gignōskein "come to know," from PIE root *gno- "to know." General (non-medical) use in English from 1706. A back-formed verb prognose is attested from 1837. Related: Prognosed; prognosing. [etymonline.com]