On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:29, Richard Hosking wrote:
> I agree on the fixity of belief - doctors as a whole are used to coming
> to a conclusion and selling that to the patient. It is not acceptable to
> conclude "I dont know" and do nothing. We have to at least stick a fancy
> label on the patient and offer them a solution. To do this we have to
> confident and assured. There is plenty of certainty on this list!
If you conclude "I don't know"
You can say
this is a valid question and we need to get someone else in on the job
i don't know, but it isn't serious/ cancerous/ likely to kill you within the
week or whatever the concern of the customer is
or, as usual,
let's do some tests and come back next week (when either it will be obvious ,
or gone)
It's hard to say I don't know, but it's not wrong to do so - to offer nothing,
not even a review is however, wrong.
liz
ps X is the X server, the thing that puts pictures on my screen
--
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.
-- Rob Pike, on X.
Steve Jobs said two years ago that X is brain-damaged and it will be
gone in two years. He was half right.
-- Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie is twice as bright as Steve Jobs, and only half wrong.
-- Jim Gettys
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