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.
Yeah, it's actually fairly nice. The problem is people want the extreme and rare. They aren't willing to be honest about it.
However, every technology starts with crazies and criminals, so it's been fun watching stuff like this slowly grow to get better and help people find the diagnosis they need.
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".
Honestly, the worst stories I have are from doctors who were diagnosing beyond their specialization. People with a fugue state that actually turned out to be a concussion, or not actually anemic, just Scottish.
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 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.
Yeah, it's actually fairly nice. The problem is people want the extreme and rare. They aren't willing to be honest about it.
However, every technology starts with crazies and criminals, so it's been fun watching stuff like this slowly grow to get better and help people find the diagnosis they need.
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.
Honestly, the worst stories I have are from doctors who were diagnosing beyond their specialization. People with a fugue state that actually turned out to be a concussion, or not actually anemic, just Scottish.
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.
I wouldn't be shocked if all the database people worked for Chinese investment companies.
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.