Confusion in Lystra

Confusion in LystraActs 14. 8-20

I have a sneaking sympathy for the medical profession.
Two or three generations ago, everybody knew that there were all kinds of diseases that the doctors couldn’t cure. They would do their best with what was available. They would offer sympathy, wisdom, encouragement and sometimes actual cures for actual diseases. But often all they could do would be alleviate pain for a while, as the disease either ran its course and cleared up or finished the patient off altogether.
Now we all assume, in the Western world, that the doctor ought to be able to cure everything, more or less at once. We have believed the boast of a kind of scientific imperialism (not that anyone in the medical profession has said it, but it has crept into our consciousness unawares): that the time is rapidly approaching when nobody will have to suffer anything very much, that the doctors will be able to sort it all out, and that they should have it all completed by next Tuesday...

Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 2 by Tom Wright