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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So, first I said "a lot of aspects", not all. You don't think that for things like the actions of medications, results can be wildly different? There is no perfect say, antidepressant for everyone. And you don't know what is best for the patient until you try different ones.
Now, sure, there is most likely a scientific explanation, but we don't know or understand it at this point, so the practice of prescribing medication can be less certain than can be discerned from our current knowledge.
And then you have surgeries, where individual physiology can mean combining your scientific knowledge with experience and perhaps creativity to make a surgery successful.
If there weren't some art to healthcare, outcomes would be a lot easier to predict.
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This is correct. Same reason why top schools like Harvard put an emphasis on developing creative skills. While science forms the foundation and has a heavy hand in the structure and delivery, creativity/intuition are absolutely part of effective medical care.
Heck, none of the biggest scientific discoveries would have been possible without creativity and intuition. Maybe some literalist spectrum folks think “art” is just painting.