Originally posted by: Krantikari
LOL sorry but degrees don't represent knowledge, they represent training. And so typical of you to list webmd.😆 Of course a layperson can't base their opinion off a journal, like The Lancet? See, there are people who have an interest in subjects beyond their discipline. They are rare, but they exist.
Knowledge is self-cultivated and broad, not limited to a single discipline.
No, I will not argue with a doctor about that, the same way I won't argue with a mechanic about his diagnosis of the problem in my car part. It does not mean that it is wrong for me to argue with a doctor or a mechanic. Or question their diagnosis by asking their rationale.
You sound like a gatekeeper, like those cringy people who gate keep classical music by claiming to have a greater 'knowledge' of it.
In the age of the internet it has become “normal” for people to dismiss experts. I have lost count of the number of times a patient has said to me, “I read a lot about this on the internet,” typically immediately prior to suggesting something outlandish. That’s okay as long as they understand I am the one with the training and experience and recognize their limitations.
That is where it gets tricky. The vast majority of people don’t recognize their limitations - a well established repeatedly tested psychological fact. Most people overestimate their own competence. Ironically people tend to overestimate more the less they actually know.
Most people get their internet medical “degrees” from news stories based on press releases of published studies - frequently the stories get the basics wrong or skew them.
Even if someone is genuinely reading Lancet articles (having read many I can’t imagine a sane lay person reading any all the way through 😆), does that person have the background knowledge to be able to analyze the quality of the article? I will tell you honestly many of the residents I train, do not. Many private practice physicians do not. Plenty PLENTY of rubbish gets published - even in the big journals.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing ,in the accomplishments Kangana herself listed which make her likely to be able to diagnose or exclude bipolar disorder (her private psychology tuitions over 2 years sounds an awful lot like therapy sessions.) But she speaks confidently as if she is capable. I do know most of her twitter following isnt real but for any that are that IS dangerous. This is not a woman saying, I read about X and here’s what I think about it. This is a woman over several days several times saying, I definitely know no one including this man (I never met) has mental illness because there is no proof mental illness exists. That is dangerously wrong.
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