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And finally, “Most of [medicine] isn’t fully explained. Most of it is partially explained. A lot of engineering-types come into the hospital expecting the body to be explainable; if there’s a problem, you simply need to find the bug and fix it. They get wildly disappointed when symptoms and lab values and imaging don’t correlate one-to-one, that medications have side effects that sometimes are worse than the problem they are meant to solve, and that replacement of one organ doesn’t fix the rest of the organs that are failing, even if the damage was all related to the first organ.”
“The idea that humans and their body parts have a life span is both innately understood and yet impossible for many people to comprehend. Anyway, there’s more that we don’t know than that we do know about how it all works. That’s why science funding and high-quality research are important to fund.”
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