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Lots of medicine is unnecessary theater, you could probably do a lot of the more common diagnostic/treatment stuff with not a ton of training. Most of the time doctors are not magicians, and a lot of their seemingly wise precautions are really from training in a paranoid system

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As a general rule, I take much higher risks than doctors recommend, because their risk tolerance is soooo low and the benefits from experimenting outweigh the increased chance of side effect

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(Ofc I don't mean like... go smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, there are in fact some things where the risk more clearly outweighs the reward, actually go look at the risk yourself and decide if it's worth it for you)

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It’s simple: I see a lot of patients, a slight shift in my risk preference will easily double or triple my complication rate, I play not to lose. You’re a sample size of one, most things you do carry no to little risk increase, you can afford to play to win.