And, by the way, Renee's son-in-law has lupus. So this fear-based shortage is directly threatening lives ... just in case you might wonder a little more about the consequences to individuals, apparently reserved for "good times".
On 4/15/20 6:43 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, [email protected] 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/
