Eating Snails

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Silly example in context. DIY open heart surgery would be quite difficult. Even I probably wouldn’t attempt it, unless I was, say in deep space with the assistance of an advanced medical robot, using open-source software.

I probably wouldn’t attempt it if the software was written by, say, Microsoft professionals.

Here’s my “formative” experience with the medical profession. It isn’t yours, so you’ll perhaps prefer to disbelieve it, but its mine, and its probably exaggerated my attitude.

Those buggers were letting me die, and DIY diagnosis and the Internyet saved my life.

B12 prescription?

I don’t know, and I wouldn’t be surprised if no one else does either, given the difficulty of measuring low-level irreversible damage. A vegan will presumably / hopefully be aware of the dangers so they would probably catch it before much damage was done, but I wouldn’t be confident that NO irreversible damage would accompany symptom onset. If you are a random case, the neurological symptoms can be hard to interpret and won’t necessarily result in a B12 deficiency diagnosis, at least not at …

The neurologist I mostly deal with now is pretty good. He makes mistakes, but he admits and corrects when they are pointed out.

I have one clinical subject and all de live-long (hopefully) day to consider the case. He has hundreds of patients and about 5 minutes each.