[pinaceae]

Exactly the same as explaining to a paying, non-technical customer why you haven't found the bug at the core of his issue yet and thereby given a fixdate is not possible right now.

It's clearly broken, so why the hell is it not simple to know whats wrong and how to fix it?

And this is for software you've written and you have the full source code for.

Don't envy doctors at all.

[jessriedel]

Yea. It wouldn't surprise me if there'd be value to having a medical concierge who would help you integrate info from different doctors. But, on my reading, the main thing being complained about in the article is uncertainty and doctors being unable to quickly issue definitive diagnoses. Trouble is, that's the nature of science. Insofar as the process approximates an ideal sequence of Bayesian updates, it has to look like an unpredictable (unbalanced) random walk.

[aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA]

The medical concierge job you're talking about sounds like a private patient advocate.