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So that’s 300 million doctors appointments a year that could be spent doing something else - treating someone who actually has something wrong with them. That’s
by pja 4y ago
So that’s 300 million doctors appointments a year that could be spent doing something else - treating someone who actually has something wrong with them. That’s before we even get to the question of whether doing this actually helps more than it hurts.
Is that a worthwhile use of their time? Do we see a net improvement in health outcomes if we do this? Healthcare is littered with treatments that were thought to be helpful but turned out to have negative outcomes.
If you want to introduce something new it really is on you to demonstrate that it represents an improvement to the status quo, because what a “reasonable person” thinks very often turns out to be completely false & ends up doing actual harm.