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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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[–] • 3 pts

Why did the dr think you had cancer? Was it just a harmless cyst?

[–] • 1 pt

Yes! Somehow the Dr couldn't tell the difference between a cyst and actual cancer.

[–] • 5 pts

He could tell, but his divorce was costing him a fortune and his Porsche payment was past due. They used to bleed you for , but now they bleed you for money.

[–] • 4 pts (edited )

In Australia this kind of stuff is subsidised through Medicare so since you aren't paying anything yourself, they act like you're insane if you don't agree to a surprise surgical procedure on the spot. Hospital doctors will literally tell you out of the blue that they're gonna arrange surgery for you and 2 minutes later try to get your signature on some kind of medical consent document before you've been told why the procedure is even necessary.