They’re doctors and have been through several years of academic rigor which should prepare them for reassessing their assumptions when those turn out to be wrong. I’m hardly qualified to assess this patient’s brain, but I’m family with several people who are quite qualified for this kind of reassessment of facts and I… frankly stop talking to them about things when it’s clear they’re overconfident in their assumptions. Yeah they’re human. But having a doctor tell you the reality you experience is absurd and impossible is quite a lot worse than having a lay person do the same.
Doctors are generally poor at questioning their assumptions. You constantly hear of cases where many doctors missed the actual problem for a long time.
Most cases come under standard frameworks and diagnosis will be correct, however if you are the exception then tough luck in getting a right diagnosis on time
Doctors are taught not to look for rare things, despite rare things happening all the time. And many of those rare things wouldn’t be considered rare in the first place if they bothered looking for them.
