I appreciate your perspective as a professional in this area.
Yeah, I'm not really looking for doctors to demonstrate creativity (although House does), so I don't think I'm asking for anything at odds with evidence-based medicine. What I'm saying is that I think you need to get to the bottom of what's actually happening (i.e. why is the program outputting 5 when it should be 4) before you can know what evidence-based medicine to apply in a "precise and totally unimaginative clinical" way to actually fix the problem. As a patient, it just feels like the system, and therefore the doctors in the system, lack the curiosity to figure out what's actually happening. We often get the treatment for the most common issue even though it doesn't quite fit the real issue, or the common issue seems to just be a downstream effect of the real issue.
Yeah, I'm not really looking for doctors to demonstrate creativity (although House does), so I don't think I'm asking for anything at odds with evidence-based medicine. What I'm saying is that I think you need to get to the bottom of what's actually happening (i.e. why is the program outputting 5 when it should be 4) before you can know what evidence-based medicine to apply in a "precise and totally unimaginative clinical" way to actually fix the problem. As a patient, it just feels like the system, and therefore the doctors in the system, lack the curiosity to figure out what's actually happening. We often get the treatment for the most common issue even though it doesn't quite fit the real issue, or the common issue seems to just be a downstream effect of the real issue.