Health is multifaceted, relative and fluctuating feature of life. Disease is probabilistically defined and measured with the attendant problems this brings. Health care demand is driven largely by illness overlapping with disease, but it is the illness rather than the disease that drives people to seek medical help. Most disease is either self-limiting or currently incurable. Finally, how we view the world will affect how we respond to it. This is the case for all peoples, in all places, at all times. This included doctors and patients. A limited medical model of disease often fails to overlap with the patient’s experience of illness.