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I have learned from personal experience to never take healthcare medicals for their words. Always do your own research. Ask them consequences and how sure the
by wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
I have learned from personal experience to never take healthcare medicals for their words.
Always do your own research. Ask them consequences and how sure they are.
And take into consideration the impact of treatments and diagnosis to the life quality of yourself or loved ones. At times can be hard for doctors and others to look beyond their own worldview.
Personally I’ve had this eczema where I found the correct cream by reading the research on it, and later found out this is also the official advice. Most doctors here just prescribe an old cream out of habit, that contains hormones and often creates worse side effects.
But a bigger diagnosis mistake was a close family member diagnosed with a very bad gen defect that would cause liver failure within a few years. He wanted the kid to start taking unpleasant medicines to be sure. He told us to get bloodwork done (without mentioning the costs) but in the end couldn’t find enough genes that had the mistakes. He wanted to do even more bloodwork being convinced there needed to be 2 genes with the defect, but I clearly told him he was going in uncharted territory, after doing the extra bloodwork he had to come back and agree he was wrong.
One defect gene was found and in extreme health circumstances liver values were found that matched the pattern of a certain disease. Which is why he was convinced it was wrong.
He was a well intentioned doctor, but these academics doctors get obsessed with analysing and diagnosis without always understanding the costs for the patients. Although they try to. In the meantime our family thought the kid was going to die for months and made significant unnecessary costs.
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