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Originally Posted by Chris Anthony  ...whereas we really do know how and why cars work, so comparing a doctor to an auto mechanic isn't really fair.  |
Chris -
As with the human body, we may understand the theory of operation, but when it breaks down the diagnostics are key. If you simply treat the symptoms you're just doing superficial healing (or repair).
A car
should operate in a certain manner, just as a human being should. Just like cars, humans display a bewildering tendency to break the mold and act in ways that seem to fly in the face of our reasoned knowledge. I've owned cars that only started when you banged the glove-box door. There was no
scientific reason at all that this should have occured, but it did.
Likewise, doctors (of both species -
Traditionalus and
Holisticus) are faced with a diagnostic logic-tree of staggering proportions. Just like that auto mechanic, they pick the most likely cause and treat for that, then sit back, play a round of golf
, and see what happens.
Or, as Steve's excellent article seems to have implied, they throw pharmaceuticals at you until you're either too doped up to feel anything or you complain, at which point a different (and usually stronger) med is prescribed.
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Originally Posted by Kiba What in the world are you talking about? What is "digital maoism"? |
Isn't that when they take pictures of cats with a 5-megapixel camera?
