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An appeal to authority is not fallacious in this case for two reasons:
1. The entire conversation is about what reasonable psychiatrists do. Being an experienced psychiatrist is one part of being a reasonable one. (We're not as interested in a new intern's opinion.)
2. In medicine, clinical experience is considered a weak form of evidence when other, more rigorous, forms of evidence are not readily available.
1. The entire conversation is about what reasonable psychiatrists do. Being an experienced psychiatrist is one part of being a reasonable one. (We're not as interested in a new intern's opinion.)
2. In medicine, clinical experience is considered a weak form of evidence when other, more rigorous, forms of evidence are not readily available.