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bynuggz ( 69912 ) writes:
So we should wait till everyone is symptomatic?
Many conditions can be treated more effectively and cheaply if they're detected early.
Some conditions dont' even become symptomatic until significant damage is done.
The question really is how to balance the best treatment with the financial constraints.
byDunbal ( 464142 ) * writes:
And also to treat the patient and not a set of lab results. This happens all too often in my country.
For example my father in law, who has never been symptomatic, was being treated for gout because he had a uric acid score slightly greater than 7. Since I am also a physician I ordered a few tests to rule out other conditions that could result a slightly abnormal uric acid result, took him off the allopurinol and told him to eat all the red meat he wants. He is still not symptomatic, has no kidney trouble,
byh4rr4r ( 612664 ) writes:
otherwise you might as well not have doctors at all and leave medicine to some giant, complex algorithm.
It would do a far better job.
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How many human-designed pieces of software do you know of that function better than the designers?
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