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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I also wonder how much of it is how the doctor explained / what the patient heard.
Example: you received a specific cancer diagnosis. Your doctor informs you that the 5 year survival rate is 10%, and probably explains more about what that means. But some people might hear ‘I’m going to die in the next 5 years’, which is not what is being said. So if they live to 10 years, they might say ‘see, doctors know nothing’, but the doctor gave accurate statistics. It’s just that many people (doctors included actually) aren’t great at interpreting statistics.
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