Medical doctors—MDs and DOs—are good people. They are highly trained, intelligent, and essential. Their expertise shines in acute care: trauma, infections, emergency medicine, surgery, and pharmaceuticals. When your life is on the line, they are exactly who you want. But where the system begins to fall short is in chronic disease. Most medical doctors receive little to no training in the areas that drive long-term health: Less than 20 hours in nutrition and functional medicin