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this post was submitted on 19 May 2024
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Yes, the doctor went to school and rigorously studied medicine for years. They are not a "wizard" they are simply an expert with expert knowledge.
Random people on the Internet are not, which is why they tell eachother to drink horse dewormer and other stupid shit. It doesn't matter how much some random layman thinks they know what's wrong with you, they have no expertise to support that belief.
The idea that people should stop telling others to check with a doctor if they need medical advice is absurd.
It's worse than that, even another doctor should not be diagnosing or advising people online...they don't have access to your medical history, current medications, comorbidities, etc and all of that data is VITAL to giving sound medical advice.
Anything beyond "eat a variety of foods - not too much or too little, get enough sleep, and exercise within your comfort limits" without any of that additional information should be considered bad advice and there's probably even cases where those 3 very general rules would be ill-advised.
True, but also, some local public doctor hardly has time to do a deep dive into that with some 20min appointment instead of having a 30 second look into the brief the nurse you talked to jotted down, hap-hazardly
One can give advice without being too prescriptive, much like the example you gave. Some things are just good all around advice and such that they would practically never be harmful. Even your advice wouldn't be good for some things. Broken bone? Nope. Diabetic coma, nope.