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> As someone who recently complained to the UK Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and got palmed off because the UK legislation doesnt quantify "reasonable ca

> As someone who recently complained to the UK Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and got palmed off because the UK legislation doesnt quantify "reasonable care", Pretty hard to quantify. "Reasonable" is a widely used concept in the law for this reason. What were you expecting them to do? How would you define "reasonable care", exactly? > I dont know what professionals are being taught in med/vet/law school now a days, but technology is increasingly demonstrating that professionals could be out of date by the end of their course! Surely nobody ever thought otherwise. Doctors aren't superhumans, none will ever know everything and there are good and bad ones. Exactly the same as any other person in any other field. > So that problem of trying to stay current in IT is spreading out into other professions and I dont see them tackling this problem like the IT sector has/does. The IT sector does? How? I thought IT was pretty mediocre at it. And the challenge of staying current with new developments predates the computer by a few millennia doesn't it? This isn't something new to IT. Have you actually looked to see how the medical field tackles this problem? I'm not in the medical field but some family members are. The amount of training, certifications, exams, etc they are required to do is staggering. Far more than any software developer I've ever known.

Terry_Roll 5y ago
All fair points, but medicine is highly cautious, and most would prefer to go with the larger entities opinions/research. So Merck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Veterinary_Manual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Veterinary_Manual) have a massive influence which introduces lag, although some do read pubmed to access more up to date studies, but (google) scholar can be a better search engine to use over pubmed. I'm also aware of the Eli Pariser Filter Bubble which will affect what the vets see and what I see. I also have to do repeated searches sometimes over a few weeks, months or years to see what the search results are throwing up which it didnt previously. > Have you actually looked to see how the medical field tackles this problem? Yeah and they dont tackle the problem to my satisfaction instead using older technology/medicine. No one wants to put their neck on the line because they dont want to look at human studies where biological similarities exist, or different species are used, like the good old rat. So some in-vitro studies exist because its impossible to study in-vivo, the tech just doesnt exist for in-vivo and that is an area where they are highly cautious and there does seem to be a general dislike for using non patentable chemicals!

Terry_Roll 5y ago

All fair points, but medicine is highly cautious, and most would prefer to go with the larger entities opinions/research. So Merck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Veterinary_Manual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_Veterinary_Manual) have a massive influence which introduces lag, although some do read pubmed to access more up to date studies, but (google) scholar can be a better search engine to use over pubmed. I'm also aware of the Eli Pariser Filter Bubble which will affect what the vets see and what I see. I also have to do repeated searches sometimes over a few weeks, months or years to see what the search results are throwing up which it didnt previously. > Have you actually looked to see how the medical field tackles this problem? Yeah and they dont tackle the problem to my satisfaction instead using older technology/medicine. No one wants to put their neck on the line because they dont want to look at human studies where biological similarities exist, or different species are used, like the good old rat. So some in-vitro studies exist because its impossible to study in-vivo, the tech just doesnt exist for in-vivo and that is an area where they are highly cautious and there does seem to be a general dislike for using non patentable chemicals!