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> As for the 'why'... You'd be surprised on how difficult is to get an answer like that from any doctor. My suspicion[0] is that they simply don't know anymore:

> As for the 'why'... You'd be surprised on how difficult is to get an answer like that from any doctor. My suspicion[0] is that they simply don't know anymore: It's something they learnt in college, but after a few years of dealing with symptoms and prescribing treatments, they forget about the why. The reason why is very simple Biology 101 level material. It's so fundamental that it makes your last statement incredibly comical. Forgetting this is like forgetting that your computer is powered by electricity.

loopbit 10y ago
You are right, the antibiotics one is pretty simple, I ran with it because I didn't want to get into personal details. Let's put a simple one from my experience: No doctor has been able to tell me what the bilirubin is. They go on to tell possible causes, and what it means to have a high value and so on.. but after hours with them, no one could tell me what it is. The closer I could get was for one of them to tell me that its secreted by the liver (close, but no cigar). The first paragraph in wikipedia explains it perfectly. I know that my computer is powered by electricity. I know most of the ways to produce said electricity, but I've forgot the details of an hydroelectric plant even though I studied it in college; it's not part of my daily life. I also know that power lines use alternate current and computers use direct current, but I've forgot the details of the AC/DC converter. Even though I was able to design one from scratch in university. I also studied the internals of microprocessors up until the pentium, how they were designed and manufactured, but nowadays all I remember, vaguely, is the x86 assembler. Do you remember every single detail you studied in college? Do you know how to calculate the root of a number by hand? I don't. Not anymore.

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> As for the 'why'... You'd be surprised on how difficult is to get an answer like that from any doctor. My suspicion[0] is that they simply don't know anymore:

by fucking_tragedy 10y ago

loopbit 10y ago
You are right, the antibiotics one is pretty simple, I ran with it because I didn't want to get into personal details. Let's put a simple one from my experience: No doctor has been able to tell me what the bilirubin is. They go on to tell possible causes, and what it means to have a high value and so on.. but after hours with them, no one could tell me what it is. The closer I could get was for one of them to tell me that its secreted by the liver (close, but no cigar). The first paragraph in wikipedia explains it perfectly. I know that my computer is powered by electricity. I know most of the ways to produce said electricity, but I've forgot the details of an hydroelectric plant even though I studied it in college; it's not part of my daily life. I also know that power lines use alternate current and computers use direct current, but I've forgot the details of the AC/DC converter. Even though I was able to design one from scratch in university. I also studied the internals of microprocessors up until the pentium, how they were designed and manufactured, but nowadays all I remember, vaguely, is the x86 assembler. Do you remember every single detail you studied in college? Do you know how to calculate the root of a number by hand? I don't. Not anymore.