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In reply to the discussion: Dr. Fauci on why the U.S. is 'out of the pandemic phase' [View all]Ms. Toad
(38,559 posts)and to participate in spreading the next variant around.
I've got 3 decades of experience making medical decisions based on similar quantity/quality of evidence, on a short timeline. Using the skills I"ve developed out of necessity, I've diagnosed my daughter's rare disease (confirmed by her doctor after he relented and ran a test just to get me off of my back), predicted my current sarcoma (case studies suggested the lesion I had should be treated as pre-cancerous, even though none of the doctors treated me believed it was anything other than benign), and developed a treatment plan for a condition that previously had none (I am one of the very few individuals with V-TOS from the late 80s/early 90s with a completely functional arm on the impacted side). The third was at the express invitation of my doctors, who apparently care a whole lot less about paper credentials than you do.
Not to mention ultimately being proven right for the last 2 years on every issue on which Dr. Faucoi and I differed.