My friend John is a really smart guy. However, thanks to a really bad decision one night when he was drunk, he got infected with the herpes virus. But since he thinks he is so smart, he thinks that he can figure out a way to beat the herpes virus without taking the normal herpes medication that his doctor would normally prescribe for him.
I think that what he is doing is really wrong. I told him this when we had coffee the other day. I told him that he should not try to be smarter than his doctor because his doctor probably knows what he is doing and he is really just trying to take care of my friend.
But John is a pretty stubborn guy. I guess this is just a natural reaction from him to just try and take matters into his own hands. He has been doing it for most of his life.