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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Docs make micro level decisions on treatment using epidemiological models based on macro cost benefit calculations all the time.
If you quiz your doc on why he's doing one thing and not another, you may get scared at what you hear.
I actually ask the docs to chuck the epidemiological shit and tell me what they'd do if the cash were unlimited and I were the only person alive.*
* And, validating your theory, I usually wind up soending piles of money on usless tests for things the macro data properly assumed I did not have. Its really interesting the way the macro stuff can predict things on the micro level, because technically, its seems like it shouldn't. Or I'm just dumb.
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You are irrational about medical care like Spankster is irrational about missile defense. You do all kinds of other risky things, but don't want to run the risk of not having taken one test.
I think my doctor is overly cautious and recommends too many tests, and hate even paying the radically reduced negotiated rates provided under my health plan.
Horses, courses. But Spanky's spending my tax dollars on bloated defense contractors, dammit, and you are just being freaky.
