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Doctor's orders (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unless the person is the kind of person to decline a drink on the grounds that "it's only Thursday", "a couple of drinks a week" is likely either more than the person thinks or they (consciously of subconsciously) are downplaying how much it really is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There’s tons of reasons why their response may be above or below how it seems…

I’m thinking of how a doctor may try to average all that with a variety of patients and how that figures into their diagnosis, hell any differential understanding of symptoms…