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lonely_wanderertoday at 2:50 AM1 replyview on HN

A counter point: a fixation on medical diagnoses can be counterproductive to living a good, happy, and healthy life. My implication is that data will lead to self-diagnosis, when maybe it’s not necessary.

There’s a reason most people don’t get medical scans every checkup, they’re simply not necessary for the majority of (healthy) people.


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nihondetoday at 3:06 AM

In Japan, the government gives everyone a battery of full body tests at least once per year. I guess you know better than Japan, right?

The whole argument that "you'll worry yourself sick" is such patronizing trash. It's obviously programming that came from the insurance industry, and you lapped it right up.

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