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> Portraying patients as unscientific and irrational is the other side of the same coin for the myth that medicine is perfectly rational ... doctors are just as
by _bfhp 5y ago
> Portraying patients as unscientific and irrational is the other side of the same coin for the myth that medicine is perfectly rational ... doctors are just as prone as the rest of us to biases, blind spots, and institutional errors.
This is true and all, but at the same time it would behoove us to differentiate when someone is an expert or "stakeholder," or someone "using the lay press" to "politicize" an issue! [1]
[1] https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1448142256930758661/photo/1 https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1448142256930758661/p...