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...
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'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...
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".
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