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[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can get the rough strokes from looks. Blood tests give you more specific information on what is wrong, if anything.

[โ€“] Truffle@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Meh, that is lazy medicine IMHO and at the same time, it says a lot about the health system and its practitioners. We need better educated more empathetic doctors who go beyond looking at someone to make assumptions about someone's health.

[โ€“] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I would say that this is a problem of lacking resources, not laziness. I've never met a doctor that didn't have a constant stream of patients and non-stop work to do.