alt Hacker NewsDoctors here in Europe are not really into diagnostic medicine. I'm going to compare with Dr. House from the TV series who with a team spent days on a single patient. This is not the reality, the reality is that your specialist doctor will spend 10 minutes thinking about your case before moving on to the next patient.
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squigz • 05/04/2025
I'm pretty sure that's not the reality... anywhere. That's TV.
snkzxbs • 05/04/2025
10 minutes is extremely charitable. Make it more like 2 minutes. (And we give the government over half our salary for this level of attention!)
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Keep in mind that even in the excellent documentary to which you refer, about Dr Hugh "House" Laurie, MD. PhD. McT., the premise is that his setup - a dedicated diagnostics team to focus on difficult to diagnose cases - is a rare concept, not something seen at most US hospitals. There wasn't, for example, a similar team in that other great documentary "Scrubs".