• EhList@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not a doctor but most of my family is. Im educated enough to know that you cannot diagnose someone off a video. If you doubt this ask a doctor if they would formally diagnose a guy off a news clip.

    Is it possible he had a stroke? Sure it is but we cannot conclude that without an examination.

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      1 year ago

      you cannot diagnose someone off a video.

      As someone who works in medical diagnostics taking videos of patients so they can be properly diagnosed, I disagree with you.

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        1 year ago

        Note that you are taking videos of these people which is different than what is going on in a newsclip. Additionally they likely aren’t diagnosing neurological problems without providing specific instructions fir the patient to demonstrate things.

        Try asking the neurologists if they would diagnose someone they never examined off a news clip

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          You don’t know anything about my line of work and yet you’re trying to teach me about it. These videos I take get sent to a specialist who makes a diagnosis from hundreds of miles away, without ever being in the same time zone.

          I know you are wrong, but you can’t admit that and it’s funny.

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            Im not trying to teach you anything. Im pointing out that there is a difference between what you are doing and looking at a clip of someone you have no medical records for who isn’t being recorded by a tech for the purposes of diagnosis and making a judgement based on that.

            You’re a tech and I highly doubt you are recording stroke victims to be diagnosed remotely. That tends to be done in house since it is so time sensitive.

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              1 year ago

              Well, an 81 year old who fell and suffered a concussion 4 months ago is surely at an elevated risk of stroke. When you couple that with the dysarthria behind the podium… seems like him having a TIA is a pretty obvious opinion to hold.

              I guess you disagree, which is fair. So what do you think caused him glitch so hard?

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                1 year ago

                Asked my cousin who is a neurologist. It could be a stroke but with his recent history of concussions they said it could be a seizure. Without a medical history it can be hard to judge what happened just off a news clip which is my real point.