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Old Apr 25, 2016, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RomanJames2014 View Post
I sometimes suspect when people are manic. It's like nothing else. There is a girl in highschool at the starbucks that I do all my work at and she is exactly the way I am when manic. I've always wanted to ask her but I'm not a doctor so yeah.

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Serious question: are you serious about that not being a doctor?

From my experience, we might be, say, a hundred times as sensitive to stuff like this than most doctors, without training. Many nurses are quite perceptive. But unless we show very stereotypical behaviour, I think many doctors won't see it. They might combine details, they are generally good at that—rationally, but they wouldn't intuitively know which set of details to look for. We may do so very intuitively, afterwards finding supporting evidence that might be as visible to doctors as it may be to anyone else.

I think computers could do a better job at diagnosing than many doctors.
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