A scientist experimented on herself to treat her cancer. It worked. Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientist-experimented-herself-treat-her-201519948.html Ethical or not? It's for them to decide... People Are Sharing The Wildest Medical Self-Diagnoses That Actually Turned Out To Be Correct Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/lifestyle/people-sharing-wildest-medical-self-234603259.html Amazing, sometimes the patients are correct and the physicians dismiss things too early!
Self-diagnosis is practiced often in the mental health field with varying degrees of acceptance and respect depending on the MH modality. I don't consider self-diagnosis unethical unless it's used for deception, to gain something illegitimately, or to circumvent legal/just discipline of some kind. In the medical sense, it's your body, you should be able to do whatever you want with it as long as it doesn't harm anyone else. That doesn't mean a trained professional shouldn't try to talk you out of doing something crazy, but in the end you should have the final say. Sometimes, Patients are left with no choice. Doctors aren't always right, and they don't know everything, and I can think of a number of times in my life where multiple MDs over multiple years missed on things that I know now should've been caught easily and I had no choice but to figure out myself (which at the time wasn't easy). I remember one MD wanted to perform an unnecessary surgery on me which I knew made no sense at all, but I still got a second and third opinion just to be safe and both opinions said, in short, "Surgery would be nonsensical." I can also think of a few times where my symptoms were outright dismissed, in fact one MD had the gall to tell me "I can't go in that direction with you" when I was telling him about chest pains I was having, something a Medical Assistant would've known to take seriously and go through the basic interview questions to figure out what to do next. I dropped that ignorant, uncaring scumbag immediately. Not everyone in these fields actually cares about people, a lot of them don't and are in it for the paycheck and/or the power and control they can have over other people's lives.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/health/video/ai-illness-diagnosis-study-rodman-intv-ebof-digvid Dr. Adam Rodman joins CNN's Erica Hill to discuss the results of a study he conducted on AI and the ability to diagnose illness. AI Dr had 90% success vs human MDs 74%
