• sincle354@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Ah, this got a good writeup by news piece. I first learned about this from Medlife Crisis’s The Epidemic of Fake Disease. Statistics about anything as big as cancer diagnoses are beyond complex, and honestly it would take a gargantuan effort of science communication to get this out to the general public. It’s… sobering to know that mortality is not morbidity and that harsh side effects create the most important optimization problems of patients’ lives. I hope that if (or maybe when) I get confronted with a similar diagnosis, I can face the numbers and the odds with as much of a level head as possible.

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    1 year ago

    what about call centers?

    EDIT: I read the headline with ‘center’ instead of ‘cancer’ so to me it made sense back then :,(

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        Lot of metaphorical cancer out there, but the article was about real, but arguably mislabeled stages of what could develop into cancer.

        Highly worth reading.