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All these articles seem to be like, "We ignored post-infectious Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for a few decades, and now we're just discovering it." see: Chronic Ly

• rapjr9 5y ago
  I agree, medicine has been really terrible at actually listening to what patients say. It ignored black peoples pain and ignored differences due to gender. Even now there are probably doctors saying long covid is all in patients heads (even after the new billions in grants to study long covid). Part of the cause seems to be just human prejudice. Another part seems to come from insertions of moral judgement into medicine ("we are not going to look for a cure for alcohol damage to the liver because then people would just drink all the time"). Doctors are often peoples only hope and so they get treated like gods and it goes to their heads. Have you noticed all the doctors saying recently "we need to be humble" with respect to COVID-19? They seem to be literally telling themselves they don't know all the answers because they forgot that. Why have doctors been so slow to computerize? Decades of patient observations and records that could have been of very high value have been wasted. My opinion anyway, and I'm sure not every doctor is the same.