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Are there Illuminati doctors? Like if you have a billion dollars can you get a better doctor that is more efficient at figuring out your shit?
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No, based on my data points of super rich people seeking care. They just get a lot more of the 5-star luxury side care. They can access expensive and bleeding edge therapies including illegal ones, but they don’t work well enough to be called Illuminati med
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My biggest frustration is the amount of time it can take to get a proper diagnosis for something. Can be weeks of getting routed between different doctors before you can even begin treating something. Have dealt with this for various sports injuries, infections, etc.
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The top 1% of every field can typically charge more for better performance. But seemingly not true for doctors. I want, e.g., the Federer of dermatologists to get me right ASAP. And if I were a billionaire, I’d be ready to pay up.
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I don’t know that such outlier performance can exist in medicine. It’s not a field of prodigies and genuises. The House show painted a convincing portrait of a type of savant doctor who doesn’t exist.
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find this incredibly hard to believe - medicine has a lot of art to it, and the more "art" the larger variance in individual performance? I'd expect a genius doctor to be 1000x better than a good one.
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I don’t agree. “Art” as such is a negative indicator. Outlier performance happens when there is a talent factor within highly legible objective performance criteria that can statistically learned. Like music or sports. Even fine art arguably has no prodigies, only “greats.”
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I think it’s just too messy and open a domain, with vast social context too. Same reason you don’t have prodigies in social science generally. Where tight feedback loops for “10,000 hour effect” to kick in exist, it’s too narrow a range of conditions.
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yeah, gotcha. my overly optimistic view still stands that what you're describing is a property of the system (= not making prodigies visible/legible as easily), more than the underlying reality of prodigies not existing at all
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