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by nscalf 2378 days ago
There is also doing the most good for most people. For every person who dies due to a misdiagnosed disease, there are 10,000 that were properly diagnosed with the less dangerous, cheaper to test for, and massively more likely illness. It would be irresponsible to take that decision tree to the farthest branch when it is almost certainly something simple.

I definitely feel for people doing diagnostics in this profession, you can't be right all the time. If you try, you're highly irresponsible.