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>No, if you are not a doctor your opinion on any of this doesn't matter at all, it's that simple. >Probability dictates that any doctor - let alone most doctor

>No, if you are not a doctor your opinion on any of this doesn't matter at all, it's that simple. >Probability dictates that any doctor - let alone most doctors' - opinion trumps yours and everybody else that parrots you, because they will be right far more often than you about medical things. You really have not spent much time around doctors, I think. Doctors (GPs) know about as much on a topic as someone who Googles the current country guidelines. For anything novel, I'd trust a statistician over a GP to interpret data every time.

jacquesm 5y ago
I've spent enough time around doctors to know that as long as you have something obvious they'll make the right diagnosis, and that if it is something rare they might get it right. But for GPs that doesn't really matter: they don't diagnose unless it is something simple, they just pass you on to the relevant expert after performing their filter function to avoid hypochondriacs from clogging the system. Don't like it? Get a second opinion. Don't like that? Request a review. Don't like that? Self medicate to your hearts content, or go with crystals, aromatherapy or whatever you believe works. But don't go around the interwebs spouting your self derived conclusion from papers that you barely - if at all - understood as fact. Because that's the rub: the people who were all over Vitamin-D, Bleach, HCQ and lately Ivermectin were just looking for excuses not to vaccinate and that is a problem, none of these miracle cures were miracle cures, they weren't even cures. At best they were no-ops, at worst they harmed the health of those that received them. By amplifying these messages thousands of people have needlessly died. But Ivermectin seems to have run its course. I predict a new miracle cure with a new champion somewhere in the next couple of months, just like Vitamin-D and HCQ before it.

jacquesm 5y ago

I've spent enough time around doctors to know that as long as you have something obvious they'll make the right diagnosis, and that if it is something rare they might get it right. But for GPs that doesn't really matter: they don't diagnose unless it is something simple, they just pass you on to the relevant expert after performing their filter function to avoid hypochondriacs from clogging the system. Don't like it? Get a second opinion. Don't like that? Request a review. Don't like that? Self medicate to your hearts content, or go with crystals, aromatherapy or whatever you believe works. But don't go around the interwebs spouting your self derived conclusion from papers that you barely - if at all - understood as fact. Because that's the rub: the people who were all over Vitamin-D, Bleach, HCQ and lately Ivermectin were just looking for excuses not to vaccinate and that is a problem, none of these miracle cures were miracle cures, they weren't even cures. At best they were no-ops, at worst they harmed the health of those that received them. By amplifying these messages thousands of people have needlessly died. But Ivermectin seems to have run its course. I predict a new miracle cure with a new champion somewhere in the next couple of months, just like Vitamin-D and HCQ before it.