Possibly. The extent of their medical "education" might be as many episodes of scrubs or grey's anatomy as you have years of actual medical education and experience. Also, they are probably scared and understandably skeptical of bad incentives built into the system, even if they can't grasp why/how. You have a hard job, not just because the science is complex but because people are complex
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Yup met just a few folks like that, but if they truly felt that way it’s a bit odd to show up and then refuse help…like you said fear probably plays a role. 99% of the time people get it with the appropriate education/reasoning. Their life, their decision at the end of the day.
Everyone here likes to talk about these “bad incentives, “ but the only incentive I have is to get people better. I’m just a dude trying to help. The “incentives” are more of a national/health system problem. I’m but a humble serf.
Finally, the science is a tad bit harder than most think. I had to memorize the Krebs cycle for no reason and maths is hard sometimes 😂.
Ha, sorry. I was just listening to the book “fiat ruins everything” — I wasn’t saying *you* have bad incentives. Just a meta-observation of the system
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I knew what you meant fren and the system is indeed broken/teetering.
Had to clarify that point though for folks that may not know otherwise. 😆