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Everyone was an amateur once, an amateur with determination can certainly see things from angles a top expert doesn’t. There’s plenty of movies telling stories
by aprdm 5y ago
Everyone was an amateur once, an amateur with determination can certainly see things from angles a top expert doesn’t. There’s plenty of movies telling stories like that, like a father who discovers a new treatment for their kid studying medicine by himself. Never discount a curious and determined amateur.
- gruez 5y ago>There’s plenty of movies telling stories like that, like a father who discovers a new treatment for their kid studying medicine by himself. I can't tell whether this is sarcasm, or you're actually citing movies as how real life works.
- newsbinator 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%27s_Oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%27s_Oil > Subsequent research with Lorenzo's oil has not clearly proven its long-term effectiveness in treating ALD after its onset.[8] The actual subject of the film, Lorenzo Odone, died of pneumonia in May 2008 at the age of 30, having lived two decades longer than originally predicted by doctors
- adventured 5y agoAnother interesting one: Awakenings (a decent movie starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings
- EamonnMR 5y agoSacks was a doctor, not an amateur. The book is less narrative and more clinical case studies.
- gruez 5y agoI'm not saying that movies are never right, just that it's baffling someone would cite movies rather than the source itself. It's like citing conspiracy theorists. Yeah, sometimes they're actually right, but you're doing a massive disservice to your argument by citing them compared to a more reputable source.
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- gdsdfe 5y agoYou know movies are made up, right?
- gdsdfe 5y agolol ... I guess I'm being down voted by people getting medical advice from podcasts?