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Comment by brookst

18 hours ago

Isn't that conflating diagnosis and treatment plan?

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largbae  18 hours ago

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  18 hours ago

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

    • azan_  18 hours ago

      Radiologists do it too.

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