How do doctors make predictions of how long someone will live or if they’ll ever walk normally again?

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I was rewatching an old video on YouTube and the guy was able to walk again after 10 months of practicing yoga and losing 140 lbs. If no one on earth can exactly predict when someone will die or if they’ll be able to walk again, how and why do doctors come up with these predictions?

https://youtu.be/qX9FSZJu448

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Anonymous 0 Comments

There’s no secret, science, or trick behind it. When you do something a bunch of times, you get pretty good at predicting what’ll happen.

A basketball player who throws a lot of balls will get pretty good at knowing where a ball is going to land. A lawyer who handles a lot of criminal cases is going to get pretty good at knowing what sentence a specific judge is going to hand out. A doctor who treats a lot of people with a specific condition is going to get pretty good at knowing when that person’s going to die.

It’s all just a guess, based on previous experience.

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