glen wrote: "We don't write software that way."
A contrarian position: David Parnas, "The Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It." davew On Wed, Apr 15, 2020, at 8:43 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > There are no "laws of scientific procedure". There's not even a > singular scientific method. What we have are heuristics and best > practices driven by repeatability and reproducibility. So, in order to > build guidelines for *who* to give hydroxychloroquine to, how much to > give them, and when to give it, we have to experiment. No > experimentation means no guidelines. > > No guidelines for how much to ship to any given hospital. No guidelines > on dosage. No guidelines. We don't build bridges that way. We don't > write software that way. We don't cook food that way. Etc. Why should > we "treat" patients that way? > > Yes, it's true that any particular doctor, imbued with the power of > their license and their relationship with particular patients, should > have the power to dose their patient with it. But logistical decisions > made at massive and costly hospital system scale really do need those > guidelines. > > It blows my mind that you don't understand this point. > > On 4/14/20 8:12 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > > The Laws of Scientific Procedure ARE the laws I am talking about here. In > > good times, we can take the time to focus on the consequences to > > individuals. And so, we can design our health systems for the most > > vulnerable among us. That imposes delays on the "mean" patient, but no > > problem, we have other ways of treating the mean patient. In an emergency, > > the possibility that one in a million patients might have an allergy to > > some component of Chlorwhatitsface seems reasonably to be less relevant, > > even though it's built into the laws of scientific medical procedure. > > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- > ... .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
