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> You now know there's a heterogeneous cyst in your abdomen that the doctor says is super unlikely to be cancerous but it's not impossible that it could be. Th
by abletonlive 3y ago
> You now know there's a heterogeneous cyst in your abdomen that the doctor says is super unlikely to be cancerous but it's not impossible that it could be.
That's up to the individual to decide - blanketing people in ignorance and leaving it up to chance should not be the only option.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoBut you're still making decisions out of ignorance and you're biased towards worst case outcomes because it's you. People are going to make the choice out of fear and that will lead to a ton of extra procedures and those people possibly having a worse quality of life as a consequence of all the elective procedures.
- abletonlive 3y agoI would say you're biased because it's not you. You've turned everybody into a statistic to make your decisions based on the idea that it's more important to keep your percentages in line with expectations created in a broken health care environment where reactionary medicine is preferred over preventative medicine. How are we supposed to ever make progress here if that's your mindset? This is the medical system that fears its own incompetence so much that it would prefer to NOT have data. How silly is that? What other industry operates this way? Can you imagine an engineer doing maintenance on a plane and saying "hey actually, we have no idea what we are doing so it's better if we don't do an inspection so we don't mess it up even more by trying to fix something that might not be a problem."