> Everybody is different. Some people are in touch with their bodies and can detect if something is going wrong, and others are not.
Piggybacking off the parent, this is a major issue that medicine doesn't seem to have figured out how to deal with. Some people are so in touch with themselves they can tell they are getting sick before they have any measurable symptoms. Other people go months or years without knowing something is seriously wrong. Because modern medicine is about systematizing decisions (everything is a code), the patient's own internal sensations are given little weight compared to the measurements of an external instrument. The result is that if the particular set of tests which were ordered show nothing abormal then it can be hard or impossible to get treatment.
> Some people are so in touch with themselves they can tell they are getting sick before they have any measurable symptoms. Other people go months or years without knowing something is seriously wrong.
And many people derive imagined diagnoses from their anxieties, then come up with confident narratives based on "researching" online. Most of us are terrible at self-diagnosis, doubly at determining the causality to wherever they've arrived. There's a reason the double blind standard was a critical innovation.
Piggybacking off the parent, this is a major issue that medicine doesn't seem to have figured out how to deal with. Some people are so in touch with themselves they can tell they are getting sick before they have any measurable symptoms. Other people go months or years without knowing something is seriously wrong. Because modern medicine is about systematizing decisions (everything is a code), the patient's own internal sensations are given little weight compared to the measurements of an external instrument. The result is that if the particular set of tests which were ordered show nothing abormal then it can be hard or impossible to get treatment.