I am a person whose parents were medical-professionals, whose dad was a medical-researcher & doctor.

I have been gaslit by doctors all my life.

IF diagnosis IS evidence-based decision-tree,

THEN an expert-system can do it, without the bias of human-doctors.

However…

IF diagnosis ISN’T evidence-based decision-tree,

THEN authority-based-medicine is the only valid medicine, as doctors hold to be true, while claiming that their authority-based medicine is “evidence based” medicine.

I’m not the only person to have noted that doctors don’t allow evidence-based medicine to threaten authority-based medicine:

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/25433

That article got turned into a chapter in the book, edited by John Brockman, “This Idea Must Die”.

( I do not agree with all the articles in that book, but that particular one is both right & too-soft )

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EITHER Davidson’s & Harrison’s Medicine textbooks are valid basis for diagnosis, in which case an expert-system MUST be capable of doing objectively-valid diagnosis,

https://www.amazon.com/Davidsons-Principles-Practice-Medicine-Penman/dp/070208347X/

https://www.amazon.com/Harrisons-Principles-Internal-Medicine-Twenty-First/dp/1264268505/

XOR doctor-authority has some “special non-deterministic magic/sorcery” that an expert-system cannot replicate.

There IS no escape from logic & fact.

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PS: you can read the Residency subreddit to see an ocean of evidence for medical-residency being a year-long identity-forming hazing-ritual, as it objectively damages doctor-learning, doctor-performance, doctor-health, doctor-empathy ( iirc there are several PubMed items on that one ), etc, yet it is still being enforced, in spite of how it measurably produces opposite-to-claimed changes.

You can also read how the researchers Logan, King, & Fischer-Wright discovered that doctor-culture is the exemplar of narcissitic-culture, and gave the simple test that there was only 1 hospital ( when they wrote their simplified-language-for-business-people book “Tribal Leadership”, to cause change ) in the US which didn’t have narcissistic-culture ruling it:

https://www.amazon.com/Tribal-Leadership-Leveraging-Thriving-Organization/dp/0061251321/

Walk into any hospital, & see if human-validity/human-dignity has been sooo eradicated from the lower staff, that they consistently won’t meet your gaze, as a professional entering the hospital.

I forget the name of the hospital which had demonstrated that human-validity CAN live below doctors, but their research earned much from that particular one.

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Of course, for anyone to accept the points I raise, would require that they hold-to evidence-based knowing, instead of authority-based-“knowing”, wouldn’t it?

Feel free to downvote me to oblivion, for my testable-facts.

PPS: I’m not attacking you, I am attacking an ideology-addiction/prejudice-addicion in the culture you are being indoctrinated into embodying.

There is a book “Doctored” on the disillusionment of an American physician, and there are many, many, many, books out now, on different aspects of the ideology/prejudice that Western Medicine has become, including perhaps “Money-Driven Medicine”, “In Shock”, and others whose names I don’t happen to remember this moment.

I wish I somehow had the leverage to make Western Medicine become evidence-based medicine, but that would require supernatural-powers, at this point.

It would certainly be healthier for the people in Western Medicine.

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