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by robbintt 1039 days ago
It's not negligible, BECAUSE you are seeing dozens of patients a day. When you're a doctor, factoring the odds into your diagnosis will screw up your diagnosis BECAUSE you are exposed to the whole probability spectrum, not a quanta of it.

Using "chance of occurrence" is a major logical fallacy for diagnosis identification and can ruin the whole practice.