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When you know a few common Latin words used in medicine:

My dad went to the doctor today to figure out why he's itchy (poison ivy, shingles, something else?). After the visit he tells me the doctor said he has [Something Wrong with the Skin].

"uh, you know that's not a diagnosis, right?"

The doctor being like, Yep, you sure do have something making you itchy.

#medicine is such an imperfect science isn't it? Like 10% knowledge; 30% guessing; and 60% making the patient think they know what's wrong.#I mean it's Good they want you to think they know what's wrong. Because it keeps us from worrying as much.#If every doctor just said 'yeah I have absolutely no idea. It could be anything. Bodies are weird. But hopefully it'll go away soon'#then we'd all be afraid it could be something horrible. 'what do you mean you have no idea?!'#But... if we didn't all grow up thinking every single illness was well documented and that doctors had an encyclopedia of medical stuff #then we'd better understand what is and isn't possible to find out when seeing a doctor.#My dad's doctor couldn't even specify whether or not it was an allergic reaction.#A neurologist was pretty sure I have migraines despite my headaches not sounding like migraine symptoms.#But the Internet says we still don't know what migraines even are. 'Ah yes. Mysterious Headache. Pretty sure it's that.'#I've always told myself I'll never go into the medical field because I don't want to mess up and cause someone to die.#Though finding out how much people don't know makes me wish I could figure things out somehow.#like in a way that doesn't involve live people ...or dead people; or experiments. Just some kind of theoretical math stuff. That'd be nice.

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