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I have respect for doctors and their skills, but I don’t associate the guys actually running around in a hospital with hard science. They are factory workers, l
by SanderNL 4y ago
I have respect for doctors and their skills, but I don’t associate the guys actually running around in a hospital with hard science. They are factory workers, like programmers that produce widgets on a tight deadline. They have a metric ton of shit to handle under enormous stress.
- JPLeRouzic 4y agoI agree with the idea that medical doctors are not scientists, not even engineers. Yet I think it's impossible to do medicine as if it was a science: Most person is different from the next because their life events, and biology and medicine are incredibly hard. For example we do not have models of human physiology, even if it looks something that could be computerized (there are efforts: dr Guyton's heritage, BioGears, etc). Another thing is that we only had recently tooling to interrogate what's going on in our body: MRI and ultrasound. Yet no medical doctors (GP/family doctor) use them. At best they use blood analysis which gives an indirect knowledge. But if the doctor does not ask for the right analysis, whole health developments stay unknown until it's too late. And many family doctors work with feeling more than with medical standardized practices: It's common that old family doctors say that they know what brings a patient as soon as they enter into their office. This is because of these "gut feelings" that we still have half of cancer cases that are discovered when they are metastasized (too late to be treated by oncologists).