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by saiya-jin 1144 days ago
Yeah this. I guess we all have some story, bigger or smaller, when doctor didn't do perfect diagnosis or treatment.

Take a look form different perspective - if you do software, have you ever created a bug? Imagine if your employer wanted to vengefully sue you for every other bug you ever did - that's what many doctors are facing with various patients. Maybe you yourself are perfectly stable well balanced individual, but our of those 2000 other patients some are bipolar, schizophrenic, sociopathic etc. without proper diagnosis and treatment.

We outsiders often tend to have this image of medicine being a solved problem, when reality is so far from this.