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Tell that to the millions of victims of medical malpractice. Doctors make mistakes just like everyone else. You might attack people for having a healthy skepti

Tell that to the millions of victims of medical malpractice. Doctors make mistakes just like everyone else. You might attack people for having a healthy skepticism of both doctors and deeply corrupt government regulatory agencies that have a revolving door with big business - I encourage it. Most people work 8-10 hours and sleep about 8 hours. That leaves a lot of time to perform a perfunctory reading of the Wikipedia article on the drug you were just prescribed before taking it. Go look at the very first (2002) version of the wikipedia page for Oxycodone, for crying out loud. This drug was publicly known as dangerous and addictive on what is probably the most accessible source of information for common people since 2002 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxycodone&oldid=10679 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxycodone&oldid...

gus_massa 4y ago
Can I agree with both of you? Reading the info from Wikipedia is difficult if you have no chemistry education. For complex cases I read Wikipedia and also obscures sites of Internet with a huge bag of salt on the side of the screen, but it's difficult. My recommendation is to get a second opinion (from a real medical doctor) and perhaps a third, and sometimes more. For normal people a pill looks innocuous enough to take the medical advice at face value. Anyway, opioids have a long history to get my spider sense is tingling, even before the recent 10 year events.
- anonym29 4y ago
  I have zero chemistry education and I find it completely readable and easy to understand. 100% agreed that people should seek second and third opinions from medical "professionals" - from whom medical malpractice is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the USA.
  - gus_massa 4y ago
    In every profession there are good, regular and bad ones. The second opinion is to try to avoid the worse ones, and evaluate if the first treatment is the mainstream opinion or a crackpot idea. Anyway, they are doing very complicated stuff, like cutting people in half and messing with the internal plumbing. In same cases it's hard to hide mistakes under the carpet like with git --amend. It's like plane pilots, any mistake can be fatal. For some reason plane pilots have checklist for everything, and very regulated maximal time without rest. Anyway, IIRC surgeons at least count the number of gauze they put and remove inside the patient, but are against checklists. And they still have some weird long shifts in some positions, like 12, 16 or 24 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#Adoption_of_working_time_restrictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#Adoption_...

gus_massa 4y ago

Can I agree with both of you? Reading the info from Wikipedia is difficult if you have no chemistry education. For complex cases I read Wikipedia and also obscures sites of Internet with a huge bag of salt on the side of the screen, but it's difficult. My recommendation is to get a second opinion (from a real medical doctor) and perhaps a third, and sometimes more. For normal people a pill looks innocuous enough to take the medical advice at face value. Anyway, opioids have a long history to get my spider sense is tingling, even before the recent 10 year events.

anonym29 4y ago
I have zero chemistry education and I find it completely readable and easy to understand. 100% agreed that people should seek second and third opinions from medical "professionals" - from whom medical malpractice is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the USA.
- gus_massa 4y ago
  In every profession there are good, regular and bad ones. The second opinion is to try to avoid the worse ones, and evaluate if the first treatment is the mainstream opinion or a crackpot idea. Anyway, they are doing very complicated stuff, like cutting people in half and messing with the internal plumbing. In same cases it's hard to hide mistakes under the carpet like with git --amend. It's like plane pilots, any mistake can be fatal. For some reason plane pilots have checklist for everything, and very regulated maximal time without rest. Anyway, IIRC surgeons at least count the number of gauze they put and remove inside the patient, but are against checklists. And they still have some weird long shifts in some positions, like 12, 16 or 24 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#Adoption_of_working_time_restrictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residency_(medicine)#Adoption_...