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TIL. I was semi-hoping someone would fill in the gap! At the same time I'm wondering why the heck my doctor won't tell me these things.


The average doctor does not have an encyclopedic knowledge of all human disease, and if they do, they are discouraged from using it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_(medicine)


Doctors only know what they've been taught or experienced. You'd hope specialists would know these things, but even they miss things and forget things. And GP's? fuggeddaboutit




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