Re:Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduc...
by Ntrails on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:36AM
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> The point I got from the article is to bias against medical interventions.
I will always regret not asking what the difference in outcome was from a surgery on a ligament in my ankle. I feel like the surgeon saw a thing they could fix and said they should do so. I don't think they had an internal monologue of does it matter and I never checked.
Not a major mistake, but not one i would make again
It doesn't have to that doctors are bad at their jobs, but rather that they're humans, and humans are hardwired to try to make other humans happy, and patients like being actively given treatment as opposed to "have you considered sleeping well, eating well, and just letting your body do its thing?"
The sources that the article has, an article in the BMJ[0] and Cochrane[1], are actually targeted at primary care physicians (after all, random laypeople don't read medical journals!), to basically tell them to chill, and tell their patients to just let themselves be.
[0] https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3680 [1] https://www.cochrane.org/news/featured-review-are-general-he...