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> quickly text a colleague. This is still common and useful to gut check and make sure you aren't missing something. Source: wife is a doctor.

manmal 5mo ago
Does she think this really does the complexity of each case justice though? I doubt you can compress an anamnesis into a two-liner without losing essential data.
- simoncion 5mo ago
  > Does she think this really does the complexity of each case justice though? Do you believe that -prior to the 2020-ish mass evacuation of doctors from the profession- the typical specialist would misrepresent the facts of a case when asking for a cross-check? Related: Have you ever worked as "the guys who actually work on the thing"-level tech support for a nontrivial Enterprise Software Product (or System)? If you have, did you never send a quick message to a knowledgeable coworker to double-check something that you were pretty sure was correct, but weren't 100% certain about?
  - manmal 5mo ago
    An enterprise product is not comparable with the human body at all. A single cell contains hundreds of times more information/entropy in its state than an operating system.
    - simoncion 5mo ago
      > An enterprise product is not comparable with the human body at all. Incorrect! Enterprise products are often sprawling projects that * are poorly designed * are inadequately (and often incorrectly) documented * have confusing and/or inadequate diagnostic facilities * are far, far too large for any one person to completely understand * have one or components that no one adequately understands * are pretty much constantly in a state of partial failure * usually don't require an understanding of -say- the QM principles that govern the behavior of the medium that embodies system in order to perform system diagnostics and repair Given that you dodged them, I'll assume that your answer to my first question to you is "Yes", and to my second is "No".
      - manmal 5mo ago
        Well, I don't doubt that enterprise deployments can be complex, but this is a false analogy.

manmal 5mo ago

Does she think this really does the complexity of each case justice though? I doubt you can compress an anamnesis into a two-liner without losing essential data.

simoncion 5mo ago
> Does she think this really does the complexity of each case justice though? Do you believe that -prior to the 2020-ish mass evacuation of doctors from the profession- the typical specialist would misrepresent the facts of a case when asking for a cross-check? Related: Have you ever worked as "the guys who actually work on the thing"-level tech support for a nontrivial Enterprise Software Product (or System)? If you have, did you never send a quick message to a knowledgeable coworker to double-check something that you were pretty sure was correct, but weren't 100% certain about?
- manmal 5mo ago
  An enterprise product is not comparable with the human body at all. A single cell contains hundreds of times more information/entropy in its state than an operating system.
  - simoncion 5mo ago
    > An enterprise product is not comparable with the human body at all. Incorrect! Enterprise products are often sprawling projects that * are poorly designed * are inadequately (and often incorrectly) documented * have confusing and/or inadequate diagnostic facilities * are far, far too large for any one person to completely understand * have one or components that no one adequately understands * are pretty much constantly in a state of partial failure * usually don't require an understanding of -say- the QM principles that govern the behavior of the medium that embodies system in order to perform system diagnostics and repair Given that you dodged them, I'll assume that your answer to my first question to you is "Yes", and to my second is "No".
    - manmal 5mo ago
      Well, I don't doubt that enterprise deployments can be complex, but this is a false analogy.