User blog comment:Noreenarshad, TheIceWriter/Why No Medical Pastas?/@comment-4453469-20110919171538

Probably the biggest reason for the lack of pastas covering medicine and medical knowledge is because the writer would need to have extensive knowledge about that field. I mean, think about it. Science, especially that of the medical variety, is a very in depth subject. They're always fleshing out inconsistencies and grey areas, rendering anything that could be considered "mysterious" invalid. So right away you're losing the suspense pastas require. And a great deal of research would have to be done, lest the pasta be labeled bullshit by someone with greater medical knowledge than the writer. A lot of effort would have to go into writing one little medical pasta, and I'm betting that's the reason a lot of writers are hesitant to do it.

That said, now that I've fleshed all this out, I really wanna write one...