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Originally Posted by Fuzz

OK, now do the placebo effect, or the power of positive suggestion when prescribing.



Here's a good read too:
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2...ribing-or-not/


You can go way back to this book....
https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Presc.../dp/1164868373


But you don't have to go that far for a paper with that title, from 2024:
https://www.researchgate.net/publica...g_Prescription


I think it's a bit dismissive to say it is all science when we don't even understand the mechanisms of many drugs.

But none of that is art.

If it were art, it'd be using hair loss medication to lower blood pressure.

Like if a doctor is using an A or B list, that's hardly art. Everybody and their dog knows that people react differently to medication. That's not art. That's science. And the science says to try the most common effective treatment first, because it is most likely that it will be the best treatment.

When an IT doof calls the same function three times because he can't figure out recursion, that's "art'. When OpenSSL was attacked by heartbleed, and peopele actually looked at the source code and were aghast, those were "artists" that wrote that collosal pile of crap.

If there's one thing that always gets you Fuzz, it's that you prescribe far too much weight to simple labels.