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It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied.

Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied. Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

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[–] • 8 pts

When I was small, my parents went on vacation and left my maternal grandmother in charge. She took us to the Dr and had us all given our vaccines against my parent's wishes, and the pediatrician knew what parents wishes actually were. It almost killed my sister. Her body was shutting down, the ER couldn't figure it out, and the pediatrician still wouldn't send the vaxx records to the ER or give my parents the labels. I was really young but I remember even then understanding that no part of the medical system actually cared about our health.

[–] • 3 pts

How on earth could a non-guardian have the rights to do that? Dr must have turned the other cheek and both should be held responsible for the suffering of your sister.