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> Most people do pretty irrational stuff, based on stories of a doctor in my family. The doctor gets self reported snapshots from a patients memory. It amuses
by akira2501 4y ago
> Most people do pretty irrational stuff, based on stories of a doctor in my family.
The doctor gets self reported snapshots from a patients memory. It amuses me as an engineer that they detect what seems irrational, but never follow up on it in any meaningful way or ever attempt to observe the actual reality of their patients lives.
The lack of time for real follow up is understandable, but the unwillingness to accept that this fact, more than anything, colors the way they see their patients is a little maddening. So, I always find it understandable when someone decides they'd rather take their care entirely into their own hands.
- hakunin 4y agoYou know how it’s always easy to educate your colleagues when they make a sub-optimal architectural decisions that could bite them in the long run? How readily they accept your insight and proceed to rethink their mental models? No? Not even experienced engineers? Now imagine an average patient, like a mom with 7 kids that doesn’t speak English, or a 16 year old dad who smells intensely of pot. Vast majority of the patients are very different than our engineering bubbles, and doctors are humans who are trying their best. For people who are willing to have a deeper conversation, some doctors will engage more meaningfully. But most of the process for doctors is to give you instructions to follow, then when you report back, alter them, or proceed as before. Most people try the first thing doctor asked, and if it didn’t immediately work, change it themselves, and/or go to a new doctor. Then complain how they’ve been to 12 doctors and nobody helped, but then they stumbled on some YouTube guy who said to take 5000mg of vitamin C every 2 hours, and their back pain went away (hint: it went away on its own).