Why Doesn Self Diagnosis Work?
In short, you’re not an expert. Only your doctor has the knowledge and experience to properly perform the process of diagnosis. You don’t really know how to diagnose a fever, and you haven’t actually seen that many fevers compared to your doctor. Another reason is that you can’t always see all your symptoms. An in-person face-to-face consultation with your doctor allows the doctors to see numerous forms of visual information about your symptoms. In the fever example again, your doctor can assess your facial color, general appearance, and lots of other aspects of how you present that you are probably not even aware of. The doctor can then, almost subconsciously, compare this situation in its entirety with the numerous other fevers that he/she has seen in their career. Another reason is that your illness can interfere with your mental processing. For example, a fever can impede your ability to make decisions. Any mental health symptoms can obviously impact upon your ability to make judge
