Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
Good questions, Jane. I think they get caught up in the business end of things and forget their original intent. I've got a serious letter to the editor of a vet journal that I'll be blogging about in the near future that shows this quite clearly.
But it's much the same in lots of fields. We tend to lose sight of early priorities when we hunker down and try to make a living at a "job."
That and a whole lot of hubris among doctors. Allopaths especially tend to feel that what they don't know can't be true or real, somehow. If it was, wouldn't we have been taught about it in med school? Wouldn't it be widespread, in every hospital, etc? So, minds remain closed, paradigms don't shift, and the older one gets, the greater becomes the attachment to what's familiar and comfortable.