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by JohnFen 1178 days ago
Yes!

What your doctor (and dentist, etc.) are really doing with you is exactly the same as what you do when you're debugging a program. Except that health care providers don't have the luxury of having a debugger or the ability to examine the "machine" state in accurate detail.

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For some extra perspective in the case of a dentist, there's also a live, breathing, feeling, conscious human they're about to drill into or debug on.

No thanks!

Just consider brain surgery! Same thing applies, except worse.