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by halpert 1631 days ago
The GP wasn’t saying go out and kill yourself because you are definitely condemned. They were highlighting that you still have an extremely elevated chance of having cancer. If you got into your car and found out you had a 10% chance of being in a fatal accident, would you not worry? Sure, there is a 90% probability you’ll be fine, but the probability for most other people is 99.999%. Pretending like there isn’t a potential issue is dangerous and willful ignorance.