Outliers and Exceptions in Medicne and Health

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HEALTH STATSGENERAL SCIENCE PRINCIPLES

U V Krishnaiah, Chandra Teja Uppuluri

4/28/20231 min read

Often, we are confronted with some unbelievible events and cases from medical and health world.

Odd happenings that shake our trust and understanding of how medicine, health, science works!

Cases like complete spontaneous remission of cancer, a 70+ year old lady giving birth to a healthy baby with minimal medical intervention, a healthy life-long smoker, etc.

Looking at such news, we often end up questioning the common pointers and suggestions by doctors, findings of scientific research!!

In this post, we explain how these come to be, and how these happenings are possible within the realm of science and not some mysterious, unexplainable events.

Given the large population of all human beings (~800 crores), a condition that has 0.0001% probability is still seen in about 80,000 people worldwide...!!! Since these are extremely interesting, they are shared across social media a lot, making us think that these are very common...

Thus for a almost all of us, the general medical advice is still applicable, and should be followed.

These medical outliers should be seen with awe, but can't be taken as examples for our own life-style choices and health behaviour...!

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