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Back when I used to visit doctors that was their biggest concern they brought up with me knowing I was in tech. My opinion for them was that AI was not the thr

Back when I used to visit doctors that was their biggest concern they brought up with me knowing I was in tech. My opinion for them was that AI was not the threat but rather not staying current in medicine, biology, chemistry is what would get them. It's one of their first lessons they are taught in medical school, that once they graduate more than half of what they learned will be no longer applicable or incorrect. I've only met a few doctors that took that lesson to heart and did not incorrectly interpret it as a disclaimer. There is also a decent doctor on Youtube that embraced this concept Dr. Roger Seheult, MD on MedCram. He was way ahead of and on top of Covid long before any of the other doctors as can be seen in their channels history. Such doctors are quiet rare.

avgDev 2y ago
Tell me about it. Due to some health issues, I've connected with physicians/chemists/researchers. Reading case studies and medical research became a bit of a hobby. As time passed by I learned more medical terms and about health/medicine in general. I've met many physicians for various issues 40+, and been to Mayo and other top clinics. These were often doctors interested in their niche and would reference information from very recent papers. On the other hand, most physicians are quite bad, and appear uninterested in furthering their knowledge. Either through burn out or laziness? I don't know. I have met doctors who are clearly WRONG, and they were wrong because they accepted a book from 1998(example) as truth, they would be right years ago. Medicine is an ever evolving science. I don't want to be treated like I am living in 1998. I don't want to be dismissed because I look "normal". The amount of pushing to get tests done I've had to do is absolutely crazy. Maybe this warrants writing a book. I even had a sports injury many years ago, that doctors referred to as "chronic pain", because they couldn't see anything wrong on tests and it lasted months. I've researched it, I've found a radiologist who created a specific protocol on how to set up an MRI machine to pick up the injury. I went to an MRI place with a protocol, gave it to them, they took it but ignored it and performed a regular MRI. No injury picked up. I then met a surgeon 2000 miles away who was passionate about medicine and operated on people with similar presentation. He inspected my abdomen and I was on a surgery table 3 hours later. I had images of massive muscle tears I've had in my abdomen. If I had accepted opinion of like 6 doctors I saw, I would be living in pain today.
- LinuxBender 2y ago
  If I had accepted opinion of like 6 doctors I saw, I would be living in pain today. I ran into a similar issue with 4 ulcers. A doctor rubbed my belly and said it was a virus. I already knew what it was. I wanted a camera and optimally a laser to clean things up so I could finish repairing them with a few protease, nutrients, mastic gum in a series of manual procedures but the wounds were uneven and not healing correctly. I went to 5 different facilities including one that misrepresented themselves as GI doctors and then turned out to be for gunshot wounds and still happily took my money and then acted like I was the idiot for going there. A GI doctor was only able to find 2 of them and said they were "unremarkable" which was a load of crap. In hind sight my mistake was taking a time slot on a late Friday afternoon. I ended up just taking the time for the cellular turnover rate of the gut in combination with my hackish techniques to heal them. I was able to heal 3 out of 4 of them. One is in a tricky spot and is only about 85% healed. The last one only hurts if I use digestive enzymes. Similar to you I would still be in great pain today if I had not performed my own procedures.

avgDev 2y ago

Tell me about it. Due to some health issues, I've connected with physicians/chemists/researchers. Reading case studies and medical research became a bit of a hobby. As time passed by I learned more medical terms and about health/medicine in general. I've met many physicians for various issues 40+, and been to Mayo and other top clinics. These were often doctors interested in their niche and would reference information from very recent papers. On the other hand, most physicians are quite bad, and appear uninterested in furthering their knowledge. Either through burn out or laziness? I don't know. I have met doctors who are clearly WRONG, and they were wrong because they accepted a book from 1998(example) as truth, they would be right years ago. Medicine is an ever evolving science. I don't want to be treated like I am living in 1998. I don't want to be dismissed because I look "normal". The amount of pushing to get tests done I've had to do is absolutely crazy. Maybe this warrants writing a book. I even had a sports injury many years ago, that doctors referred to as "chronic pain", because they couldn't see anything wrong on tests and it lasted months. I've researched it, I've found a radiologist who created a specific protocol on how to set up an MRI machine to pick up the injury. I went to an MRI place with a protocol, gave it to them, they took it but ignored it and performed a regular MRI. No injury picked up. I then met a surgeon 2000 miles away who was passionate about medicine and operated on people with similar presentation. He inspected my abdomen and I was on a surgery table 3 hours later. I had images of massive muscle tears I've had in my abdomen. If I had accepted opinion of like 6 doctors I saw, I would be living in pain today.

LinuxBender 2y ago
If I had accepted opinion of like 6 doctors I saw, I would be living in pain today. I ran into a similar issue with 4 ulcers. A doctor rubbed my belly and said it was a virus. I already knew what it was. I wanted a camera and optimally a laser to clean things up so I could finish repairing them with a few protease, nutrients, mastic gum in a series of manual procedures but the wounds were uneven and not healing correctly. I went to 5 different facilities including one that misrepresented themselves as GI doctors and then turned out to be for gunshot wounds and still happily took my money and then acted like I was the idiot for going there. A GI doctor was only able to find 2 of them and said they were "unremarkable" which was a load of crap. In hind sight my mistake was taking a time slot on a late Friday afternoon. I ended up just taking the time for the cellular turnover rate of the gut in combination with my hackish techniques to heal them. I was able to heal 3 out of 4 of them. One is in a tricky spot and is only about 85% healed. The last one only hurts if I use digestive enzymes. Similar to you I would still be in great pain today if I had not performed my own procedures.