How Doctors Think

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… or whatever. This seems like more or less a recipe for selecting candidates with low intellectual curiosity. And as for empirical evidence, I believe it's also the book How Doctors Think book that quotes the statistic that the vast majority of doctors couldn't name a single finding published in their field's leading journal within the last year.

…average seven years to correctly diagnose a medical condition. Some diseases, like celiacs, have an average time until diagnosis of 10 years. If you haven't already read How Doctors Think, it's truly horrifying. Unless you have something like strept throat, you're generally pretty screwed even if you have great medical insurance. And I'm speaking from personal experience here; about three years ago I started having some medical issues, and I went into the doctor the day the symptoms started happening. A dozen doctors and specialists later and I still don't have a correct diagnosis. The fact that I'm probably going to have to wait another 5+ years until I can get the problem even diagnosed is complete bullshit. Now it could just be that I have something that is really hard to diagnose, but more likely the reason no one can figure it out is…

"I'm happy to say I have found a doctor who does practice the scientific method. Unfortunately, not all do." In the book How Doctors Think, they show a statistic that the vast majority of doctors make up their minds about what's wrong with you in the first thirty seconds and then never reconsider no matter what you say or the evidence suggests. This is one of the advantages of going to see a naturopathic doctor in addition to an allopathic doctor. They will actually sit down with you for a 45 minutes and discuss your health, diet, exercise, etc. This would be unthinkable for 99% of normal doctors. While it's true that allopathic doctors should be trained to take your diet and such into account when trying to figure out how to cure you, the fact is that none do. So you could have depression that's caused by a lack of magnesium and your doc…