Gotta remember that one

a year ago by Björn to c/chronicillness

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Kyle_The_G 132 points a year ago

you can live with it and not understand it, but you can also understand it and not be able to empathize what its like to live with it. This statement sucks no matter how you look at it.

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k0e3 34 points a year ago

Yeah, the tweet's take is way too polarized. A one hour lecture? C'mon...

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Onomatopoeia 12 points a year ago

Go read up on what's involved. It helps if you know a doc personally.

I've had docs ask me if I was a med student just because I paid attention to what was going on and gently corrected when their diagnosis contradicted their own testing a few minutes before.

Docs are human too.

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MotoAsh 2 points a year ago
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bumblefumble -5 points a year ago

How long do you think doctors get to learn about diseases. It doesn't seem farfetched for a newly graduated doctor to have only had a 1 hour lecture on a disease, probably split over multiple ones. Plus some self studying. So if they never encountered it in real life afterwards, it doesn't seem too wrong, does it?

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