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"Who cares what statistics show? Look at medicine. 80% of people with pancreatic cancer die within 5 years and 95% of appendectimies occur with zero complicatio
by MattBearman 14y ago
"Who cares what statistics show? Look at medicine. 80% of people with pancreatic cancer die within 5 years and 95% of appendectimies occur with zero complications. But we both know cases of pancreatic cancer patients that lived and appendicitis patients that unfortunately passed. Statistics mean nothing to the individual"
- Dr. Cox (Scrubs)
That quote has always stuck with me since I saw that episode, if you enter a situation knowing statistics of outcomes, it can affect how you perform.
- sopooneo 14y agoAnd maybe it should affect what (if not how) you perform. If you are probably going to die soon, maybe you would feel your life best spent in a different way than if you had decades left.