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by mensetmanusman 745 days ago
Is it basic but not documented? Basic to me means the first google search result is generally correct.
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That's not how medicine operates.

Medical problems are highly contextual, so you are not going to get much valuable information at the level of what a doctor is thinking from the first page of Google. That doesn't mean it isn't a simple within our area of expertise.

In my area of expertise, a well formulated google search can result in a page 1 full of academic articles on the general topic, but there isn’t necessarily consensus. This might be a case of the curse of knowledge :)