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The comment is about the need for medical intervention. TikTok and other social media platforms can convince you that you have all sorts of medical issues when you do not. And even if you did, the question still remains as to if intervention harms your overall quality of life.

This is not a generalization saying to not get checked for cancer or other serious diseases early, but to take any self-promotional “medical advice” with a grain of salt like whether you need to fix your nose, buy expensive probiotics, or try to get prescribed a certain drug based on a list of symptoms.

And no, we should not fast track death. Life is already too short.




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