not taking it was in agreement with his personal doctor
I'm honestly shocked by that. I've seen more than one instance of doctors recommending it to patients with cardiac issues (I work for a dr's office). They don't seem to give a single fuck, they're just telling everyone to get it with no elaboration.
Either he's lucky as fuck and got one that isn't just a midwit prescription pad or doctors actually turn their brain on for rich people.
I have worked at a few offices as well. I refer to it as general vs specific. Generally, a vaccine is safe and keeps people safe. Specifically a person might have some health problems, or the vaccine will effect that person in a different way than expected. Most immunologists work off of that expectation, and put it into their theories. If 5 million people get the vaccine, 100 will have an adverse response to it.
So the doctor is working off of what is generally good advice vs what this specific patient needs. The doctor usually works off of what they expect things to be like, and general answers for everything. The more rare the disease the less he will expect it or even know it exists. This is why spinal issues and heart tissue problems are so rarely talked about, because the few people who can treat it are so rare, and thus have a small clientele.
I've seen patients with obvious problems, and the doctor believes it to be a thing, but the labs and others don't know how to recognize or deal with these problems, so they called him an idiot. I've straight up seen good doctors be called quacks because a lab couldn't recognize a problem.
So, the culture really pushes the general answer over the specific as much as possible.
I think in this case, someone with a degree in microbiology will have the knowledge to inform himself and educate his doctor. However, the bands response is the usual thing I have seen in medical circles.
Man, I have to be so generic here because of HIPPA regulations.
One of the main problems of human intelligence is people's inability to discern between those two. (others are our inability to accurately assess risk, and our tendency to see the world the way we want to see it instead of how it is)
Of course it can also be a problem if you prioritize the specific too much. You get the WebMD syndrome where everybody thinks they have the most unlikely dangerous diseases based on symptoms.
Most of the stuff on WebMd is fairly generic still. Wikipedia has been the sword that cuts both ways in my experience. WebMD just makes you think you have cancer.
Headache from sleeping wrong? Parkinson's.
I've seen some insane stuff with psych tests. Do you find yourself crying without reason? Out of boredom, so yes. Then I must have be depressed.
It's little better than those questionnaires people made up on late 90's websites.
Do you dream of flying? Sure. You are an alien/vampire/unicorn. Actually now that I've written this out, I'm starting to figure out where a lot of modern entertainment got its ideas from...
Having spoken and worked with some of the content writers from WebMD, their goal was to optimize for SEO first and foremost. They were quite good at that for a long time.
Or that one lady who was slightly anemic but quite pale, so she read up on the possible causes of anemia, visited the outpatient clinic and demanded to be treated with rituximab and cyclophosphamid for her "B cell lymphoma".
I don't understand. Why can't you just demand everyone's medical history and treatment history at will?
I mean, that's totes legit, right? I have the right to not only demand your medical history, but also to mandate specific medical treatments for you because I'm such a good person look at my Pfizer tatoo.
Sounds like you're an alt-right terrorist. Medical histories should be corporate property for the good of everyone. I'm a good person look at my Pfizer tatoo.
I just want them to stop fucking saying "Mix and Match"
JFC. This shit is experimental as fuck as it is. DO NOT JUST START TAKING RANDOM TREATMENTS BECAUSE BEING CONCERNED WITH DRUG INTERACTIONS IS ANTI-SCIENCE SOMEHOW.
I'm honestly shocked by that. I've seen more than one instance of doctors recommending it to patients with cardiac issues (I work for a dr's office). They don't seem to give a single fuck, they're just telling everyone to get it with no elaboration.
Either he's lucky as fuck and got one that isn't just a midwit prescription pad or doctors actually turn their brain on for rich people.
I have worked at a few offices as well. I refer to it as general vs specific. Generally, a vaccine is safe and keeps people safe. Specifically a person might have some health problems, or the vaccine will effect that person in a different way than expected. Most immunologists work off of that expectation, and put it into their theories. If 5 million people get the vaccine, 100 will have an adverse response to it.
So the doctor is working off of what is generally good advice vs what this specific patient needs. The doctor usually works off of what they expect things to be like, and general answers for everything. The more rare the disease the less he will expect it or even know it exists. This is why spinal issues and heart tissue problems are so rarely talked about, because the few people who can treat it are so rare, and thus have a small clientele.
I've seen patients with obvious problems, and the doctor believes it to be a thing, but the labs and others don't know how to recognize or deal with these problems, so they called him an idiot. I've straight up seen good doctors be called quacks because a lab couldn't recognize a problem.
So, the culture really pushes the general answer over the specific as much as possible.
I think in this case, someone with a degree in microbiology will have the knowledge to inform himself and educate his doctor. However, the bands response is the usual thing I have seen in medical circles.
Man, I have to be so generic here because of HIPPA regulations.
One of the main problems of human intelligence is people's inability to discern between those two. (others are our inability to accurately assess risk, and our tendency to see the world the way we want to see it instead of how it is)
Of course it can also be a problem if you prioritize the specific too much. You get the WebMD syndrome where everybody thinks they have the most unlikely dangerous diseases based on symptoms.
Stop lying, it's always Lupus.
Most of the stuff on WebMd is fairly generic still. Wikipedia has been the sword that cuts both ways in my experience. WebMD just makes you think you have cancer.
Headache from sleeping wrong? Parkinson's.
I've seen some insane stuff with psych tests. Do you find yourself crying without reason? Out of boredom, so yes. Then I must have be depressed.
It's little better than those questionnaires people made up on late 90's websites.
Do you dream of flying? Sure. You are an alien/vampire/unicorn. Actually now that I've written this out, I'm starting to figure out where a lot of modern entertainment got its ideas from...
Having spoken and worked with some of the content writers from WebMD, their goal was to optimize for SEO first and foremost. They were quite good at that for a long time.
Diarrhoea? Has to be a toxic megacolon.
Or that one lady who was slightly anemic but quite pale, so she read up on the possible causes of anemia, visited the outpatient clinic and demanded to be treated with rituximab and cyclophosphamid for her "B cell lymphoma".
Signed, Facebook MD.
no thats just women :P
I was accused of that just five minutes ago by DH.
HIPPA????
I don't understand. Why can't you just demand everyone's medical history and treatment history at will?
I mean, that's totes legit, right? I have the right to not only demand your medical history, but also to mandate specific medical treatments for you because I'm such a good person look at my Pfizer tatoo.
HIPPA is so strict I couldn't take a picture of my workspace for fear of even one bit of info being released.
Sounds like you're an alt-right terrorist. Medical histories should be corporate property for the good of everyone. I'm a good person look at my Pfizer tatoo.
It might help if you spelled HIPAA right...
The worst part about that is how many times I've spelled it wrong in emails.
I'm either dyslexic or the Bernstein Bears have attacked again.
I just want them to stop fucking saying "Mix and Match"
JFC. This shit is experimental as fuck as it is. DO NOT JUST START TAKING RANDOM TREATMENTS BECAUSE BEING CONCERNED WITH DRUG INTERACTIONS IS ANTI-SCIENCE SOMEHOW.
They literally want people to die.
I think a lot are just scared of saying no and being labeled as an anti-vax doctor or something.
My mother had covid a few months back, it barely hurt her, she is super healthy for her 60s age, but she has a hereditary severe blood clot risk.
Doctor said she shouldn't get it, yet she is still in fear eventually being forced to.
i just saw my doctor last week and it didn't even come up. i'm sure it notes in my chart that i'm not jabbed.
It's rare but it happens, mine suggested I not get it due to an allergy concern.