One trick if doctors won't tell you % outcomes is to offer wrong % suggestions.
Me: what's % chance this will work? Can you give me a number?
Dr. we really don't know, we can't predict what will happen...
Me: so it's like 99%? or like 10%?
Dr. well actually no more like 70%
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My primary care doc confuses T4 and T3. If she understands the difference between absolute and relative risk, I will eat my shoelaces.
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Any number of unknown factors can change the percentages of success. They are basically trying to ease your mind while at the same time covering their ass.
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This is also an amazing way to get anyone to give a rough explanation anything
Provide the wrong explanation yourself
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Related: if you need help with something on Linux, don't say “how do you do X with Linux?”, say “Linux sucks, it can't do X.”.
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Most of the time if I don’t give a percentage, it’s because I don’t know, and we’re told not to give patients guesses bc they tend to take them as fact. So, idk. Take the percentages elicited with this method with a grain of salt.
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