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any specifics that you can provide? in general I'm pretty skeptical of this idea that only medical professionals are useful for such information, but I'd like t

• atahanacar 3y ago
  Please see my other replies in this thread for some examples. I wanted to correct every false information but realized it was almost all comments that were either missing some nuances or clearly incorrect. Human body is a combination of multiple very complex systems. These are so complex that you can't even begin to grasp the complexity without diving pretty deep. Majority of non-MDs (especially non-MD health workers like nurses ironically - Dunning Kruger maybe?) heavily underestimate the knowledge required to graduate medical school. This complexity of human body brings with it lots of tiny nuances. So much and so tiny that even specialists with decades of experience can miss them. Add to this the mechanisms we still don't completely understand, you get the perfect recipe for "dangerous bad advice from non-medical professionals". Some of the misinformation is a direct health hazard, like claiming "your body can get rid of what it doesn't need so your salt intake is not an issue". Some of them aren't directly harmful to your health but damages the healthcare, either by breaking the trust like "blood pressure measurement during visits is incorrect and leads to misdiagnosis", or by putting extra pressure to spend healthcare resources unnecessarily like "measuring your bp during the day is useful". If you want to do any further reading on any of these problems I mentioned, especially the last one which is hard to grasp and counterintuitive, I can link you some resources. Edit: by MD I mean also DO for Americans.