[brookst]

Isn't that conflating diagnosis and treatment plan?

[largbae]

Sure, but my anecdotal experience is that doctors do this regularly in real life, especially when choosing to diagnose or ignore problems that are unlikely to kill an aging patient before some other larger issue does.

[brookst]

Gotcha, I was thinking more about radiologists than patient-facing doctors.

[azan_]

Radiologists do it too.