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Isn't it the case that every common diagnosis has an established "reasonable and prudent" treatment? It seems to me that the main skill of a doctor is making t
by ams6110 9y ago
Isn't it the case that every common diagnosis has an established "reasonable and prudent" treatment?
It seems to me that the main skill of a doctor is making the correct diagnosis. Once that's done, treatment (at least in the vast majority of cases) is going to be perfunctory.
And even the diagnosis itself is going to be, in most cases, the "most likely" condition that explains the patient's symptoms.
- tcj_phx 9y agoSometimes a diagnosis is useful, sometimes it's a useless (harmful) simplification. People are always more complex than their diagnosis. Specialists have a stranglehold on medicine: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/opinion/sunday/the-specialists-stranglehold-on-medicine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/opinion/sunday/the-specia...