Who Defines What’s “Healthy”? Diagnoses, Treatments, and Medicine’s Mission Laura Christianson Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture As a medical student, I'm perpetually absorbing knowledge taught to me...What all of these teachings share is a certainty that there are problems, and that medical students can learn – through lectures and textbooks and research – how to fix them. I'm still not clear why we're making the attribution of one thing as a problem, and another as the solution.