lvysaur
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That we don't yet is an indicator that the medical system is a failure.
Often, the only input a doctor receives from a patient is a list of subjective symptoms. Therefore, it should be a priority to correlate various symptoms to measurable levels of things in the blood (or tissue). This still hasn't been done in a systematic way.
Only people on health forums like ours will try to guess at stuff by saying "Oh I think I had high serotonin because I had diarrhea" or things like that. And we're mostly making slightly educated guesses, but we wouldn't have to do this if there was ever an attempt to correlate symptoms and labwork in a systematic way.
If you knew which immune cells, hormones, were responsible for what symptoms in the human body, you could diagnose people with much higher accuracy. Perhaps elevated IL-6 and low histamine would cause scalp itchiness (just an example). So if a patient came in with scalp itch, you could do an IL panel + histamine right off the bat. More often than not it would be positive, and you could proceed with treatment.
We've had big data for decades but the medical system is still in the stone age, even by its own standards.
Often, the only input a doctor receives from a patient is a list of subjective symptoms. Therefore, it should be a priority to correlate various symptoms to measurable levels of things in the blood (or tissue). This still hasn't been done in a systematic way.
Only people on health forums like ours will try to guess at stuff by saying "Oh I think I had high serotonin because I had diarrhea" or things like that. And we're mostly making slightly educated guesses, but we wouldn't have to do this if there was ever an attempt to correlate symptoms and labwork in a systematic way.
If you knew which immune cells, hormones, were responsible for what symptoms in the human body, you could diagnose people with much higher accuracy. Perhaps elevated IL-6 and low histamine would cause scalp itchiness (just an example). So if a patient came in with scalp itch, you could do an IL panel + histamine right off the bat. More often than not it would be positive, and you could proceed with treatment.
We've had big data for decades but the medical system is still in the stone age, even by its own standards.