Rat Lungworm

[MarkP]

I don't doubt that rat lungworm is real and that many of these people had it. It's a serious threat. All the more reason to filter out the bull. I don't doubt that there were cases where doctors were not sufficiently aware. Nevertheless there is a huge amount of armchair self-diagnosis going on here and a huge glorification of anecdotal evidence. Spouses who sit next to each other and validate each others stories do have some benefit but there is also the risk that one is just mindlessly going "Uh-huh", at the right moments out of a sense of duty. If you accept the general message of this videos one must believe that the medical community is worse than useless and the untrained general public must be believed without skepticism, as though diagnosing obscure diseases were easy and there is no such thing as a hypochondriac.

I am perhaps biased by having watched an earlier video about rat lungworm in which a room full of people were asked if they had had it. Dozens of people raised their hands, the majority of the audience it seemed to me. That video also had stories of how doctors had failed to diagnose the condition. The message seemed to be that the doctors knew nothing, that the majority of the audience had been infected, and that they were able to diagnose themselves where the doctors had not been able to. I am just doing a reality check. The vast majority of us are alive today because the medical community CAN and DOES help us.