I am writing this post in the hope that it may help someone who is sick and not getting any diagnosis or help from his doctors. Someone who perhaps finds this post via Google. I hope I can help someone, since I can’t help my own family. Just remember: it’s YOUR body. It’s YOUR care. Do not hesitate to question doctors and demand alternative treatments if you are not getting better. Sickness is NOT normal, health is. Don’t be bullied by the medical system!
I read about a study the other day called the Invisible Gorilla experiment. Basically it is to demonstrate that we will miss unexpected events if we are concentrating on something else.
Go read the details about the Invisible Gorilla Experiment here. I’ll wait.
Ok, so people who were concentrating on one thing completely missed a huge thing that popped up. What does this have to do with anything? Well, for one, it illustrates that anyone can miss important events or facts if they are not looking for them. ANYONE. Now, let’s take this and apply it to medicine. Radiology, for instance. Another study was done at Harvard Medical School with radiologists, who are trained FINDERS. They are trained to find tumors, abnormalities, etc., and paid huge sums to do so. You would think that they would find a gorilla picture inserted into an xray of a lung, wouldn’t you? Not so much, actually.
Can YOU see the gorilla?? Then you did better than 83% of the radiologists. Keep in mind this was on a full sized xray, which is about 14″x20″. The gorilla was about 2″x2″ IRL! Go read the Harvard study. I’ll wait.