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4/100k is still exceedingly rare. There are probably 100s or more diseases that show up in 5/100k so it's hard to know them all. Meanwhile the doctor probably s
by krschultz 14y ago
4/100k is still exceedingly rare. There are probably 100s or more diseases that show up in 5/100k so it's hard to know them all. Meanwhile the doctor probably sees the top 15 diseases all the time..
My girlfriend has a condition that affects 12% of the female population to a varying degree. Some doctors knew absolutely nothing about it. Some were able to solve it easily.
- bobbydavid 14y agoSounds like bayesian probability. If the symptoms are 30% similar to a disease that 99.999% more common, and 70% similar to a disease that's 0.001% common, the doctor would still be correct most of the time by suggesting that the patient had the common disease, even though the symptoms were a better match to the rare disease.