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Doctors give out wrong and bad advice all the time. Doctors in general make mistakes all the time to the point that there’s some alarming statistic about how preventable medical errors is a scary high percentage of deaths. People should absolutely question their doctors and get more opinions, and in a world where my last 10 minute doctor visit would have cost $650 without insurance, for a NP, I don’t blame them for trying to self diagnose.

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You are proving my point talking about the percentage of deaths caused by medical errors. If you had 100,000 people receive medical care, 10 die, and 5 of them are due to medical errors, then sure, you could spin that as "50% of deaths were caused by medical errors". Never mind the context, never mind the fact that we are actually able to identify the errors in the first place!

So again, if you want to ignore the safeguards that we've built for good reason - take your business to Tijuana.

TBF, 'medical error' is a super wide definition. Most aren't diagnostic errors, and they encompass all healthcare professions, not only doctors. It makes a big difference in interpretation and potential solutions.

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