Okay /his/ I recently read about Doctors in the middle ages basically

>>3259962
>prayer alone was historically more effective than medieval medicine because placebo is more effective than placebo plus bleeding you dry
really makes you think

>>3259962
>generally do to cure you when you got sick.
Sick is bad, wounded is better, they had competent wound doctors at the time to cure cuts and broken bones.

>>3259993
Don`t forget praying is also a placebo in itself due to it giving you hope and the feeling of not being alone with your sickness wich has been "proven" to make people get less sick and heal faster from their illness.

Depends on the period are we talking early medieval period or later.
Firstly we need to address the very real difference between a Doctor and a local Surgeon. A doctor was usually trained in a medical practice, where as a surgeon could be anyone willing to do an operation and attend to minor medical issues, as a side business. During the plague the majority of people who administered medical care, were these would-be surgeons, as most doctors avoided plague victims.
Medically a doctor would have been trained in the Greek tradition of medicine at the time and would have believed in the balance of the humors, different fluids that made up the balance within the body. Urea, blood, bile, phlegm, etc. Any disorder within these humors would have been treated with a different form of medicine. Blood letting was very common, as was drinking different concoctions and medicines, prayers and the practice of purchasing charms, and sometimes actual effective medical practice.

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>>3259962

It's called trepaning and it's both the one of the oldest forms of surgery known and still in use today. It removes pressure from the brain. In some cases it can cause a hissing sound, which is probably where the idea of it being evil spirits leaving the body came from.

Medieval medicine is a crapshoot of competence and knowledge. Some medicines would actually have worked, others worked but not in the way they thought, others were complete nonsense that would do more harm than good.