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It was suggested to my wife to get our daughter's tongue tie taken care of when she had trouble with breastfeeding. I said it sounded like bullshit with no scie

It was suggested to my wife to get our daughter's tongue tie taken care of when she had trouble with breastfeeding. I said it sounded like bullshit with no scientific basis, but we were desperate parents with little recourse and lactation consultants were unhelpful with suggestions like suffocate your baby with your breast until they latch. So I said if she felt like it would help she could do it, because sometimes science doesn't have all the answers. It didn't help, and our child still struggled with breastfeeding. I felt really angry at the medical establishment after that, and my feelings towards the medical establishment have not improved. This is just the first incident in which the medical establishment failed my daughter, and I think that pediatric care in this country is in absolute shambles. The only thing I can figure is that the doctors who go on to become pediatricians must not have been good at any other specialties so they decided to work with children because they couldn't screw it up too badly. Remember, this is still the same field where doctor's claimed babies couldn't feel pain until the 90s.

friend_and_foe 3y ago
The medical establishment will fail you every step of the way if you put faith in it. If you use it as a tool to inform your judgment, take any form of body modification very seriously you can utilize it. If you just trust and listen it will always fail you. From thalidomide to ritalin to this, the truth is that it's not much different from alchemy or blood letting, it's a little more advanced but nowhere near as much as we think. We think of medical science as some infallible science and our time as some future where we know the answers now and we have almost figured it all out, that is not true. Inform your judgment, take things seriously and medicine can be useful to you.

friend_and_foe 3y ago

The medical establishment will fail you every step of the way if you put faith in it. If you use it as a tool to inform your judgment, take any form of body modification very seriously you can utilize it. If you just trust and listen it will always fail you. From thalidomide to ritalin to this, the truth is that it's not much different from alchemy or blood letting, it's a little more advanced but nowhere near as much as we think. We think of medical science as some infallible science and our time as some future where we know the answers now and we have almost figured it all out, that is not true. Inform your judgment, take things seriously and medicine can be useful to you.