what I think you're trying to say here is...
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Originally Posted by DrewDotNet
Everyone likes to shoot from the hip with what they've heard. This isn't the kind of decision you can make in five minutes (preaching to the choir, aren't I?), yet people think their "five minute best guess" is what you need to hear.
A lot of it is "availability bias" - everyone weighs the "available" stories over the "actual" stories; Problem is, the bad/rare/unusual stories are the most available ones. (Highly Recommend: Your Medical Mind, by Jerome Groopman)
Most planes land safely - but which ones do you hear about on the news?
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People automatically assume that care care outside the US is not as good as ours because of the negative stories they have heard about?
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54 yr old female 5'7" 147 lbs. non-smoker conservative treatments failed
2007 fusion @ C4-6 peek cages, failed due to long term use of cox-2 inhibitor
2008 revised C4-6 donor bone, plate & screws
2009 fusion with Roi-C @ C3-4
2015 MRI & CT mjr ddd @ C6-7, segmental kyphosis at C7-T1, 2-level M6-C prosthesis by Dr. Clavel Barcelona Spain
2019 H.O. formed behind M6-C @ C6-7 left nerve rt & in spinal canal.
2020 Revision C6-7 to a CP-ESP prosthesis by Dr. Schmitz Dusseldorf Germany
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