Raymond wrote:
> "'The person most likely to kill you is not a relative or a friend, or
> a mugger or a burglar or a drunken driver. The person most likely to
> kill you is your doctor."
>
> === (Vernon Coleman) author, What Doctors Don't Tell You
>
> Why do doctors kill more people than airline pilots?
It's simple:
Airline pilots are trained "bus drivers," following a prescribed
routine. They train and retrain to carry out that one routine.
But medicine is still as much of an art as a science. The doctor soon
finds that real life is not what they taught in medical school. And his
judgment and intuition are im****tant, not some checklist.
There have been attempts to create computer programs that can do medical
diagnosis automatically. They have been dismal failures because medical
diagnosis is not a canned procedure, but an art.
And not all art is good. And not all artists are good.
BTW, on 9-11, what happened for once was not in the airline's standard
routine either. Hence no airline pilots knew how to handle it properly.
And a whole lot of people died.
--
Steven L.
Email: sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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