[MD] LC Comments

[Ian Glendinning]

Hmmm kinda Magnus,

But appreciate I'm not talking about social context though, I'm
talking about the social content of the case. The patient, is a
complex of all four levels of patterns - the doctor examining only the
biology is only doing 25% of their job.

Ian

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Magnus Berg <McMagnus at home.se> wrote:
> Ian
>
> On 2010-07-12 10:15, Ian Glendinning wrote:
>>
>> Magnus,
>> When you say
>> " it's impossible to value its biological patterns by valuing its
>> inorganic patterns "
>>
>> I agree. But, when you say
>> "doctors examine biological patterns, and as such social patterns are
>> simply over their heads."
>>
>> I have to say - only in simplistic cartoons. Real doctors have
>> "bedside manners". Medicine is not confined to biology, the social
>> level is hugely important to medicine too.
>
> Of course you're right, and I bet not even the nerdiest (socially
> disconnected) of doctors will miss that Obama is the president, (which was
> Dan's original example).
>
>        Magnus
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