Type I, informally chats with people and suggests to them what to eat, what not to eat, what to drink, what not to drink, how to prepare foods, how to eat and drink, how much, how to go through a day, even before people are sick.
Patient: What?! He is a doctor?! I never knew he was a doctor. I always thought he was just a layman like me, sometimes telling me not to drink, not to burn midnight oil, not to indulge in sex, common things like that.
Type II, knows how to help people when symptoms are still small and stop the diseases from progressing.
Patient: He is a good doctor. When I felt bloated and had pain in right rib-cage area, he gave me something to drink and something to take and my pain was gone, so were all my discomforts.
Type III, knows all about liver transplant, local ablation, alcohol injection, radiofrequency, TACE, tamoxifen, octreotide, antiandrogens, hepatic artery, ligation/embolization, drug-eluting beads, radiolabelled yttrium glass beads, radiolabelled lipiodol, immunotherapy, etc. etc.
Patient: Oh, boy! My doctor knows everything about everything! He even knows how to open me up, give me a brand new liver, and suture me up again! Even though the transplantation gave me 1 more year to live and made my family and all my relatives broke, he must be the best doctor!
What do you think? Who is the best doctor?