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Came for the CAP theorem, stayed for the cardiology 101 course, lol. His approach to diagnosing himself is really admirable. Working with doctors but never fully trusting them w.r.t. completeness is unfortunately the way to go in these busy times, where doctors just assume the most likely diagnosis and move on. Luckily, we have almost the same information available as the doctors with studies and such that we can dig deeper ourselves.

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I can't really blame them. The essence of it is "if you see hooves think horses not zebras".

The human body is usualy one resilient bastard, so the ol' "tylenol and come back if it gets worse" is a good tactic for 95% of the cases.

But detecting those 5% cases probably takes A LOT of dedicated bandwidth from the whole medical process, so unless there is some clear manifestation that it's not horses but something else, I think it is reasonable that some will not investigate further.

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