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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9196195" data-attributes="member: 93670">Every time I go to the doctor...<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">they have a decade or so of general education, some of that helps provide them a bonus of some form at certain tasks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They have several additional years of education as a doctor providing them a bonus of some form at certain tasks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They have year(s?) Of on the job experience accumulated during their residency... That provides them a bonus of some form at certain tasks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They have detailed records they can review which provides them a bonus of some form</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They have medical books  charts & similar of various forms that they can cross reference for a bonus of some form.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They might have an area of specialization (ie podiatrist gp proctologist neurologist cardiologist gastroenterologist etc) that further aids them in having experience with issues of a particular sort which enables them with further bonuses to diagnose and identify issues within their specialty or to know which tests and where to send a patient for further investigation if they are uncertain given past items </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They can order additional testing to be done (scans/blood work/etc) to further provide them a bonus of some form that can be cross referenced against the previous items.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They have a staff to aid them who can help organize or even perform some/part of the prior items.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They use specialized equipment to aid in any testing they perform on the spot.</li> </ul>Take a standard visit to a gp... Someone in the office will review your charts and see that the doctor has ordered the following tests. Many of those will involve taking some kind of sample and sending it to s lab, but thanks to hyper specialized equipment some can be done on the spot.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The doctor or a tech with bonuses from some of the previous points might check your blood pressure and heart rate using a manual cuff with stethoscope and watch with a second hand... Or they might use s single purpose machine.  It is common that they will initially mess up when applying the cuff and need to remove/reapply the cuff</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They might check your blood sugar. This is a process that is very much trivialized and much more foolproof than it once was.  Thanks to single use finger stick devices it's rare to need more than one stsb to get a good blood sample<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thanks to improved testing strips and testing devices it's now very easy to touch the strip to a welling drop of blood, but still it can take w couple tries before getting it just right for the drop to absorb as needed</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Thanks to improved testing devices there is now no longer w need to physically drip blood onto  the testing strips/sensor or whatever it was.  Prior to such advances it could take a few tries to get the drop to fall perfectly</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They might take your weight .  Digital and analog step on bathroom type scales are often imprecise and avoided but sometimes they will make you step off and back on if it seems particularly questionable.  With the beam balance scales they pretty much 100%  of the time require multiple attempts at adjustments before zeroing in on the correct weight </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They might listen to your lungs.  That will regularly require moving and setting back down the stethoscope a couple times while listening to you breath and/or require you to inhale/exhale again for them to get a good listen for what they are listening for.</li> </ul>The doctor will almost never walk in and immediately diagnose you without reviewing records and performing additional tests or sending you to s specialist for a particular test before going over everything again. A surgeon likewise has a similar mountain of bonuses from training preparing scans and prior rests in addition to hyperspecialized tools and often multiple people assisting them during surgery.On top of all that... Even the best doctors sometimes sometimes miss things misdiagnose problems botch procedures or lose patients.</blockquote>

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