How are we all not n=1? If we don’t share the same fingerprint how are we supposed to have the same chemistry? And you’re a DR? Sorry but scary. Like me saying all Dr’s are killers or all pigs are cops no? Must be nice weather over there
You are replying to someone explaining that their professional experience shows that the answer can be neither generalising anecdote because what works for one will not necessarily work for another nor simply broadly applying statitics because, to oversimplify, something which works perfectly for 20% and not at all for 80% as a terrible average rate of success but is indeed what you want if you are amongst the lucky 20%.
What are you complaining about in this take exactly?
The problem is incorrectly generalizing personal experiences to a population. You've implied that because there must be a relationship between some people, that relationship is the same for all people. You've reduced the complexity of all of human health to a single factor - being human.
I think this is a good example of misunderstanding the purpose of both science and medicine.
Same chemistry different DNA. Based on the 1000 genome each person has roughly 150 known pathogenic rare mutations. And vastly more currently unknown pathogenic. People inherit ~2 to 3 million SNPs from a collection of 700m SNPs.
So doctors are looking for rare conditions in 1 of 10 people, where we all have rare conditions and a lot of them. We are walking bags of rare conditions. Thankfully there are direct to consumer While Genome Sequencing which is pretty easy to find your SNPs and look up which ones are attached to studies about being pathogenic.
I figured out that I have pathogenic TNXB mutation myself despite the gaslighting of many doctors for many years and WGS confirmed it.
It’s a totally different way of doing medicine that bypasses doctors.
Interestingly enough one of the treatments for my specific mutation is one sub class of anti depressant.
My brother has had life-long, serious mental health issues, and it's only been because of both medication AND life-long therapy that he has been able to reach a baseline of normalcy and being able to function. I think if you have a serious underlying mental health issue, that it often takes both the meds and therapy. I also don't think most psychiatrists feel they are "playing God." I think most genuinely want to help patients get better, to the extent they can.
