Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system.

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BallsandBayonets@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I think you have the terrible take. Untrained people shouldn’t be self-diagnosing based on hearing a list of symptoms, the brain is too good at tricking itself and it is too easy to even give yourself symptoms you don’t have.

And I don’t expect any one doctor to know of every treatment that exists for every illness, because that’s what collaborative knowledge bases are for. A carefully moderated medical Wikipedia that can be contributed to by doctors and researchers.

But all of this wouldn’t make the pharmesutical companies as much money as peddling to hypochondriacs so instead we have ads.

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