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Oct 6Edited

In a Malcolm Gladwell book (think it was Blink, maybe Tipping Point), he said they had a computer vs doctor diagnosis study. The computer was around 96 or 98% correct. Doctors were around 50% correct.

The medical establishment thought the human interaction was more important than getting it right.

In another book (forgot which), they say that medical malpractice claims go down if the doctor spends a little more time with the patient - it was minutes. Think around 5 minutes.

Medicine has historically been the only profession where getting it wrong has been profitable. They don’t give refunds when they get it wrong. And you have to pay for more medical visits.

This practice has seeped into other businesses today.

Same applies to prescriptions. The truth about medications is they don’t work for everyone. For many, around half will get no benefit. Think it was in Bad Pharma.

The author says many would be better off taking a sugar pill. The placebo effect is around 30%.

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Misdiagnosis is another staunch pillar of the wretched modern medical mafia. If offers the opportunity for more tests, and still more tests followed by tons of drugs and maybe an intervention or two.

Plus you get to see a dozen idiot doctors who will charge you $147 for a 5 minute visit. That's about $1,700/hour. See why medicine is so expensive for nothing given in return?

The medical mafia and the HHS have no desire to make anyone well or healthy. Almost 19% of the economy depends on 10's of millions of people becoming ill and diseased every year and then becoming life long wards of the medical system. It can be no other way. NEVER.

If millions were to become healthier, the system would fall on hard times, need a government (taxpayer) infusion of billions of dollars to keep it running. Your only salvation is to ignore the HHS, government and the medical mafia and do your own health...take responsibility and quit depending on useless cluckers and the madmen of medicine. That misdiagnosis may cost you more than a few bucks.

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