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I'd take it further/slightly parallel direction. Medicine is at the same time a science and a weird "feel and experience" area. On the one hand it's a science:
by rich_sasha 7mo ago
I'd take it further/slightly parallel direction. Medicine is at the same time a science and a weird "feel and experience" area.
On the one hand it's a science: controlled experiments, calculated dosages, all based on an understanding of low level biology, fancy imaging methods, measuring currents in people's bodies and so on.
On the other hand, there seems to be plenty of "he seems fine to me", "tests came back fine but something seems off to me so let's try another test", "doesn't seem to be responding to this drug, let's try the other one", "in my experience this drug works better than that one". It seems like a pretty big chunk of subjectivity is actually a part of the field.
- amluto 7mo ago> On the one hand it's a science: controlled experiments Those experiments are so hilariously expensive these days, and the results are often not actually fully published, so good data is often unavailable. > calculated dosages Often calculated based, in large part, on researchers’ vibes and their vibes when designing experiments. > all based on an understanding of low level biology There are many, many drugs with partially or even almost fully unknown mechanisms.