Re:Why Medical Advice Seems to Change So Frequently
by babyrainbow on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @12:04AM
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>medicine is often like debugging a large complicated messy system...
A system, that you didn't write and don't have access to the source, Now, try fixing a large and complex software system only by observing inputs and outputs only.
This is not even going into the fact that how every one will be running a slight different version, which might also be influenced by a million factors such as environment, food habits and past and current medications....
It is virtually impossible, even for moderately large software, even without considering the latter..
A system, that you didn't write and don't have access to the source, Now, try fixing a large and complex software system only by observing inputs and outputs only.
This is not even going into the fact that how every one will be running a slight different version, which might also be influenced by a million factors such as environment, food habits and past and current medications....
It is virtually impossible, even for moderately large software, even without considering the latter..