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by mangoman
590 days ago
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on 2) are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518 ? I don't know very much of the history, but the veracity of the claims is specifically called out in the wikipedia page. Given the year, I'd wager that the truth is that they died of something else... And that's a very strange reason to be skeptical of womens' description of their symptoms in a medical setting. Is there evidence that women are more prone to 'social contagion'? You yourself said that "women are more prone to auto immune diseases" and that they are known to be triggered by viruses...To me, skepticism (and in my view, cynicism) of patients is one of the major contributors to distrust of evidence based medical advice. Taking your last anecdote as an example, just because the patient's self diagnosis is likely incorrect, that does not mean that the symptoms they're experiencing are all "made up" and should be met with skepticism. There may be other reasons they're experiencing symptoms. A doctor shouldn't just say "Because you thought it was long COVID even though you weren't diagnosed with COVID, I'm convinced you're making the whole thing up". That's just lazy and unsound. |
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