Stories are not facts.
Stories are not points of data.
Stories are "well, Bobby Joe down at the fillin' station said his grandpappy took this here horse paste, and it cured him!!"
A general practitioner won't have the time or data to know whether or not horse-paste is gonna work. They'll say "well, try it. Come back if you don't die."
That's not science. That doesn't help anyone.