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ekianjo ◴[] No.44464403[source]
> Before moving forward - I’m not a doctor. Just a bit of a nerd with a blog. Please do not sue me or use these posts as a replacement for medical care.

unnecessary disclaimer here. when it comes to chronic pain treatment doctors are mostly useless or even harmful, proposing surgeries or drugs that will do more bad than anything else because they have no interest in learning how to customize their approach and will parrot and prescribe what they heard from medical representatives. Remember, the opoids crisis was enabled by doctors in the first place.

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qualeed ◴[] No.44464460[source]
It's not unnecessary to tell people you aren't a doctor when people may reasonably believe you are a doctor in the absence of such a disclaimer.
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1. ekianjo ◴[] No.44466040[source]
I was not focusing on the 'not. a doctor' part, rather the 'seek medical care' as being bad advice when dealing with chronic pain