I’ve seen doctors dismiss chronic fatigue as 'just stress' for years, and that’s clearly harmful, but I’d still argue health must first be treated as a clinical matter before any social cause gets considered. Recently, a friend spent a year chasing alternative explanations for her migraines, only to find out an MRI showed a benign tumor—no amount of lifestyle coaching would’ve caught that. Yet dismissing the social side entirely repeats the same mistake, because poverty and isolation directly shape who gets diagnosed and how well they recover. So which failure is worse: a system that’s too narrow in its science, or one so open it misses the tumor?