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meh999
2y ago
you get as many as required. it's your health, not your car where you can simply replace it. It's very difficult to recover from medical error.
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meh999
2y ago
get as many as required, my health is worth more than my opinion on doctors or system as a whole.
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meh999
2y ago
Blindly, strong word- I agree. By saying 'trusting blindly' I meant 'dismissing possibility of incorrect diagnosis and applying prescribed procedure withought weighting the risk'. So, if GP gave diagnosis and informed ab
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meh999
2y ago
You can skip 2nd or 3rd opinion, nobody denies you the right to do that. Still, you should not deny others the right to have 2nd or third opinion, especially since you yourself see high probability of receiving different diagnosis.
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meh999
2y ago
I did not say 'don't trust', I said 'don't trust blindly without taking 2nd or 3rd opinion' trusting blindly is as bad, if not worse than not trusting at all- 'above all do no harm'
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meh999
2y ago
> That’s alarming because life expectancy has stagnated in the United States and declined in the early 2020s, O’Brian said. I wonder if that is due to listening to our doctors and not taking 2nd or 3rd opinion. I was asking many doctors