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[quote=Anonymous]I’m pro vaccination and pro finishing antibiotics. I also mostly listen to my doctors. But I don’t love doctors and think they can be so condescending.

Doctors follow treatments that are best for 90% of people, and if you’re one of the 10% with an odd, hard to diagnose disease, or that doesn’t respond will to the usual treatments, you’re out of luck with most doctors. Some treat you terribly and tell you some bullshit like it’s all psychosomatic symptoms of depression. People look for diagnoses for years before getting one, all the while doctors treating them like crazy people making it up.

Some doctors also won’t tell you the truth because they don’t trust individuals to weigh risks and make decisions themselves. Like some recommendations about what you can eat, sleep, and do during pregnancy or the insane push for breastfeeding above making sure babies don’t starve and moms aren’t going insane.

Or maybe the doctors are too afraid of being sued and so always give the standard advice only even if it’s not working out.

I also think the discussion of vaccines by doctors is condescending. I don’t agree with anti vaxxers and I don’t think they cause autism. But vaccines do cause plenty of rare complications. There’s a whole schedule in the law to compensate people who have those complications. So yeah, probably what is best for each child is to be the only unvaccinated child in the whole universe of people he or she will ever meet. But that’s not possible and it’s a public good. But all I ever hear about is the safety of vaccines and never that hey, it’s your civil duty to do it, the risks are very rare, so weigh that and don’t be the jerk that causes the poor kid with cancer to die of measles. Instead it’s just it’s perfevtly safe like there’s no trust that we can handle the truth. [/quote]

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