[pinkyand]

> Who said decisions should be easy? I sweat over each and every one.

True medicine is a really hard job.

So maybe the way decide in medicine should be changed ? maybe they be done remotely but through a recommendation system so that each doctor would get plenty of nearly similar cases - so he could practice and hone it's intuition ?

Or since the complexity is really too great (and as a patient hearing that "this is art not science" isn't that encouraging , even if true) maybe the overarching goal of medicine should be to remove the art, and we finally have the tools to do it(watson, machine learning ,remote diagnosis , etc...) ?

And if we agree that that's a good goal, maybe the current way we try to do it (evidence based medicine) , is a bit clumsy due to both the science and the resistance by doctors , but at least it's going in the right directorion.