Recently was at the doctor, and he thought previous ppl who had treated me were wrong. "That's not the cdc recommendation", he said. But then he checked against, saw cdc had updated, and was like ok you're fine. It made me uneasy how much he just blindly trusted the cdc webpage-
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In theory, as a healthcare professional you're not just trusting "the CDC" but you're trusting the people working at the CDC who ostensibly have the same credentials you do, who are taking the time to do the independent research you don't have time to do and giving you the result
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There's certainly an element of not-having-time-for-this-ness and/or laziness/inertia and in an ideal world we'd all have time to read all the latest papers and make our own judgments etc etc but that's not really a reasonable expectation in the real world for most
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How do you manage your medical insurance?
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Professionals trust their colleagues’ expertise. Reading the CDC website *is* research because he knows the evidence the CDC evaluated and what standards they used—they are just physicians with different specialties.
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Considering his industry is regulated by the CDC, it makes sense that he’d resort to it for legal guidance. If any “single” source works best, it’s that one. And continuity between the populace also makes for more effective policy.
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The cdc does not regulate nor publish practice guidelines, they provide information that physicians and other regulatory bodies can, and should, reference. But they can be deeply flawed, e.g. 2020
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I've had doctors not mention the top 3 recommended treatments (unsurprisingly the first recommendation worked for me). I'd love a doctor who did independent research but I'll take one that just passes along the guidelines rather than waste my time with garbage
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there is a reason it's called a medical practice. i have little trust for the field and hang onto the good ones for as long as possible. lawyers too... i don't hang on to those, but that's because i' usually beating them.
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I wonder if the problem is with the CDC. Last time I checked, gov’t agencies exist to serve us, not vice versa. It’s shocking the lack of transparency in these organizations.
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