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I mostly agree. Just two comments. [My native language is Spanish, please don't read the "you" here as some direct advice to you, it's a generic "you".] It's important to get good doctors, there are good doctors and bad doctors, and the default health service doctor may be not be optimal. In most situations it's not possible to get a x10 doctor that will make you live x10 more, but a good doctor will reduce the number of unnecessary and stupid medical procedures and provide better treatment. [Some people strongly disagree with this.] Read Wikipedia article, all the links, the fist 20 Google results and then a little more. Be aware that the Internet is full of scammers, crackpots, and overhyped press release from universities, so take everything with a (huge) grain of salt. Don't expect to find a magical cure, the idea is to have a minimal understanding of what is happening, understand better what the doctors are saying and what they are not saying, the tradeoffs, the risks, ... Remember that it is not your field of expertize, so don't get too confident. (For example if you are an expert in software, think that it's a hardware problem, so there are many tricks of the trade that you don't know.) |