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Why is it so hard to navigate medical diagnoses ?

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All right, we’re live.

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So welcome.

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Hey, Bruce, it’s good to see you.

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Good to see you, Debbie.

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So you and I have been talking and I have so many questions for you because you’re a physician.

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You’re a physician scientist.

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You are the go-to for so many people about questions about medicine and questions

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about what to do when people Google all the questions that they have about all

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kinds of medical issues that they’re experiencing.

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So I hope that you don’t mind if I ask you a few questions today.

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Sure, because everything on the internet is completely accurate and correct.

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Yes,

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you know,

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that’s my first question for you is,

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why is it so hard to navigate medical diagnoses?

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Because,

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like you said,

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we have AI,

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we have Google,

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and we have so much information at our fingertips.

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So why is it so hard?

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Well, the problem is you have to look at where the information is coming from.

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I mean, the internet is like one big…

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Uh, it’s like a, uh, gigantic public restroom.

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You know,

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you really can basically,

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uh,

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I say like,

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if you see something on the internet or anywhere in internet,

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it could be the equivalent of following what you see written on a bathroom store

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stall in a public restroom.

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You don’t know who wrote it.

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You don’t know where it’s coming from.

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It may not be.

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verified uh there’s lots of people talking about lots of different things uh you

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know nowadays i i watched the other day there was a video about someone talking

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about um uh like geopolitics and that person was like a fitness person so you know

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you you

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Just don’t know.

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Everyone has their fingers out there.

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So you’ve got to be careful.

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And then when you’re dealing with your Health, there may not be do-overs, right?

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So once you do something with your health, you may not be able to… Again, it’s not like…

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getting uh information on i don’t know your sports team or getting information on a

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tv show or movie you know okay if it’s wrong it’s wrong uh or fashion okay uh it

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could be disastrous if it’s fashion but you can recover you can recover from i’m

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living proof that you can recover from fashion disasters

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So,

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but,

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but yeah,

Originally Published on https://deborahheiserphd.substack.com/

Deborah Heiser, PhD The Right Side of 40

Deborah Heiser, PhD is an Applied Developmental Psychologist with a specialty in Aging. I'm a researcher, TEDx speaker, contributor for Psychology Today, Substack blogger, CEO of The Mentor Project, and adjunct professor of Psychology.

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