Doctors are skeptical. But they should be. When I approach a doctor with symptoms he has no way of knowing how many other doctors have already examined me. On average that number is larger than zero. So the doctor should factor in the wisdom of at least that fractional number of doctors who have already given me a clean bill of health. My symptoms have to be especially bad to compensate for that automatic positive signal.
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