Opinion: I’m Not the Doctor for You: Cognitive Bias, Complex Illness, and a Moral Imperative, 2025, Kuon

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There’s this weird history of trust the salesman /aspects from the days much of it operated as a business before systems like nhs or science developed into it - as shown by how until whenever it was banned you used to have pharma reps visiting GPs etc didn’t they?

which is different to staying up on the research ‘to have something to offer patients’ or having specialists and the throughout of that knowledge doing better thru the chain - it feels like it’s all about avoiding getting enough specialists in the right area by moving funds into this sort of thing by skewing ‘demand figures’ by things getting categorised wrongly certainly almost knee-jerk early on as ‘it’ll just be lifestyle/behavioursl’ and hey presto they claim most illness is that based on order people that’s the pathway they have to follow for almost everything

not the right people at all who got put in charge of choosing where to spend big budgets of money for different’conditions’ they may have misdiagnosed into a dumping pot in the first place ?

 

I don't want any neuromodulating treatments

 

Maybe they could make you believe you are living in Guatemala.
You could specifically ask for that treatment and se if it worked.

 

Why don't they just neuromodulate so hard that cognitive biases dissapear?

 

Isn't that the definition of narcissism; to believe that reality and the truth are maleable to one's own ends?

 

Too true. It can be , although I think others also pick up the habit initially for other reasons / circumstances