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dyauspitryesterday at 8:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think the bigger takeaway here is that 50% of the time doctors will miss what you have.


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gpmyesterday at 8:58 PM

That's not a takeaway here at all.

It's 50% of the time ER doctors working solely from notes, something they never do, in a situation they know is only for a study, will miss what you have.

In real clinical situations the doctors see, hear, smell, and interact with the patients.

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ngokevinyesterday at 8:58 PM

I believe in modern medicine but I lost some faith in the American institutions around it when I "diagnosed" my partner with the correct disease that the first rheumatologist dismissed and told them to just stretch. It was officially diagnosed years later, and we lost a lot of time because of it.

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