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> Notice that the doctor didn't disagree with that being a course of treatment for this disease. Yes, but having a PBM tell a doctor that their diagnosis is wr
by illumin8 7y ago
> Notice that the doctor didn't disagree with that being a course of treatment for this disease.
Yes, but having a PBM tell a doctor that their diagnosis is wrong and try to change their professional recommendation, without ever having seen the patient, and with unknown qualifications, is downright evil and probably malpractice.
We have doctors for a reason. They took a hippocratic oath to do no harm, and allowing unqualified people who took no such oath to tell someone to "just take out the kidney" is abhorrent.
- DanBC 7y agoYou place a lot of trust in doctors. Knee arthroscopy is a good example where doctors knew for a fact that they were helping patients until we ran trials using sham surgery and we found out it doesn't help some patients at all. https://www.painscience.com/biblio/fascinating-landmark-study-of-placebo-surgery-for-knee-osteoarthritis.html https://www.painscience.com/biblio/fascinating-landmark-stud... https://doctorskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/08/placebo-surgery-4-knee-arthroscopy-in.html https://doctorskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/08/placebo-surgery-4... PBMs are probably bad, but we need some organisation to look at the evidence and say whether something works or not.
- Scoundreller 7y ago> They took a hippocratic oath Not as common as you think.