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This is the kind of marketing-driven content I can actually get behind, not joking. Glacier MD at least has the problem right.
What's to stop Glacier from becoming the same as Google for the same reasons? That's a mountain of med ad cash on the table.
Not exactly a strong hand to bet on, but it's better than nothing.
> Laser bacterial reduction (LBR) is just one example of the many high-stakes medical decisions Whether or not to drop $400 is not a "high-stakes medical decision". Also, expecting Google to give you high-quality medical advice when your actual, licensed, trained dental hygienest is not is asking a lot of a search engine. Personally I've found sticking "examine.com" on the end of most results to be very useful for an…
> Whether or not to drop $400 is not a "high-stakes medical decision". This just feels out-of-touch. $400 on a medical decision is a MASSIVE choice for many people -- it could be the difference between whether not they eat.
https://www.tepeusa.com/collections/tepe-interdental-brushes...
(The brush is basically applied to the space between teeth and touching the gums, but see a pro please first.)
Why are dentists so scammy? In Norway I've seen documentaries about them sending the same people to multiple dentists, and some of them receive wildly different advice. Some of that can be ascribed to some being in the school of pro-active, so they want to fix your teeth at the first glance of issues. But in the end, most of the things being quoted were unnecessary. They all seemed very intent on removing wisdom teet…
I think if we had the 'pay out of pocket' kind of thing for other health care we would see the same thing.
I have found that dental clinics in the US can be some of the shadiest health related businesses you have to deal with. There are few independent clinics around. Most of them belong to huge corporate conglomerates that push down shady treatments like this, or offer predatory financing for these “treatments”. I’ve had only two instances of a health professional outright lying to me and telling me I had a health condit…
Doctors who won't justify themselves can often be avoided at least in medium-sized and larger urban areas.
The main observation is that in medicine you need to be your own advocate. The doctor is used to people who just want an answer or a cure. They're not going to break out the journals for every patient because most patients don't want that. This also goes for dentistry.
> Laser bacterial reduction (LBR) is just one example of the many high-stakes medical decisions Whether or not to drop $400 is not a "high-stakes medical decision". Also, expecting Google to give you high-quality medical advice when your actual, licensed, trained dental hygienest is not is asking a lot of a search engine. Personally I've found sticking "examine.com" on the end of most results to be very useful for an…
> Whether or not to drop $400 is not a "high-stakes medical decision". This just feels out-of-touch. $400 on a medical decision is a MASSIVE choice for many people -- it could be the difference between whether not they eat.
> In the pre-Szaszian era, medicine was something that happened to you. You would put your health in your doctor's hands and they would unilaterally decide your course of treatment. But in today's patient-centered world, doctors are more like consultants To be honest I've only seen this level of "patient-centered" stuff in the US. Never heard the phrase "Ask your doctor about xy" anywhere but on US TV. Sometimes pret…
I would personally rather be involved in the decision making process related to my very existence rather than just told what to do.
Imagine your grandmother who knows nothing about computers or tech asking you about GPUs and which programming language is best because she's curious about buying Bitcoin vs investing in Ethereum.
For someone who can't tell the difference between a screen saver and a computer virus, the discussion is meaningless, and only the illusion of control exists
> In the pre-Szaszian era, medicine was something that happened to you. You would put your health in your doctor's hands and they would unilaterally decide your course of treatment. But in today's patient-centered world, doctors are more like consultants To be honest I've only seen this level of "patient-centered" stuff in the US. Never heard the phrase "Ask your doctor about xy" anywhere but on US TV. Sometimes pret…
I would personally rather be involved in the decision making process related to my very existence rather than just told what to do.
On the other hand, they're a professional and they've usually spent the majority of their life training to be good at what they're advising you about. I don't demand to be involved in the design of planes I fly on or bridges I cross, because frankly I'd do a worse job than even a pretty bad qualified engineer.