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0 pointsorbital2233y ago0 comments

> Next time you visit your 'Corrupt High Priest Doctor' who represents the institution of Medicine, who recommends a therapy, why don't you ignore him and make your own concoction, at home, using the 'alt method' you discovered on some podcast? Good luck.

If the doctor recommends that the treatment to a strong cold is to amputate your hands, will you just agree to it or will you apply some level of your own discernment?

> Doctors and Medical researches have a fundamentally better understanding of the human body that idiots on Twitter.

And yet there were (and are) a ton of doctors prescribind Hydroxicloroquine and Ivermectin to their covid patients.

> Which is why some medicine is 'behind the counter' and we don't argue about that very much.

We argue about it all the time. That's why people get second, third and fourth opinions. That's why there are medical panels. That's why people sue doctors for malpractice.

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jasmer3y ago· 2 in thread

You're going to use 'If they tell you to jump off of a cliff, would you do it?' arguments? Really?

Are you suggesting that doctors don't have an institutiona legitimacy?

Seriously?

Hydroxicloroquine and Ivermectin? They are medicine. Doctors have been prescribing them for a while. We don't know the full effects of them, but we also know they are otherwise benigng in specific dosages, and there were hopes that there wouldbe an effect. It's good that some Hosptials were making the prescription.

And finally, no, we do not argue over the concept of 'behind the counter drugs'.

There is 0 debate anywhere that people should just be able to 'self prescribe' and get what drugs they want.

That doctors can be wrong is besides the point.

I don't think you've made any arguments to suggest that we shouldn't remain having some fairly serious instittional legitimcay in the field of medicine.

selfhoster113y ago

> You're going to use 'If they tell you to jump off of a cliff, would you do it?' arguments? Really?

One reply to "Would you jump off a bridge if all your friends did it?" would be "Yes. My friends are not stupid. If they are all jumping without exception, it's probably because the bridge is on fire."

bcrl3y ago

Doctors are like any other profession. There are average doctors, there are really good doctors, and there are also really bad doctors. The world is full of nuance. Sadly some people don't want to believe nuance exists, and others deny that nuance exists for personal gain.

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