If you go to the doctor with a medical issue and find out that he knows less about medicine than you do, are you going to feel comfortable working with him? 

White Coat InvestorPhysician on FireTough to manage business/property while in medicine, particularly in med school and residency.

If it is for medicinal purposes, it may be protected, does anyone else know? 

Thankfully, that is not entirely true, "A" students go into medicine and science, business and all aspects of our economy, so do "B" students and "C" students.

This website as well as various books and resources has seriously opened my brain to so many opportunities other than science and medicine.

No one wants to feel like they must rely on medicine to be well, so when there is a stable period and things are going well, it’s apparently easy to convince one’s self that the meds are no longer needed.

I am a medic in this great Army lol.

There is a new documentary (From the maker of "Enron - The smartest man in the room" ) called "Money Driven Medicine" that documents the exact issue.For a little taste go to ABC Nightline site http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/and click on "Health Care Sound and Fury"

Quite honestly, I am a bit embarassed for the lack of research US based medicine has done in this area.

This includes the Badlands, Devil’s Tower, Medicine Wheel and Bighorn National Forest, Mt Rushmore, Deadwood, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Craters of the Moon, Petrified Forest, Taos/Santa Fe/Albuquerque, Sedona, Utah and Colorado, White Sands, and Roswell. 2018: Our goal is to return to South Africa by end of year and participate in the Living With Orphaned Rhinos volunteer program.