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> but ironically not to the people who are medical experts in SOME way.

The dangerous thing about expertise in a very narrow area (which most medicine is these days) is that is bolsters confidence so much that you imagining yourself an expert in an adjacent area... not realizing that you might be missing very important fundamental knowledge.

You see this often in e.g. Nobel Disease[1], but also in more mundane settings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease




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