Murphy's Law: Doctors [antikvár]

IntroductionmW Writing Murphy's Laws for medicine can be a sticky business. "When you diagnose a patient with x, he dies of y" is not exactly the stuff of humor books. Nor is, "Treatments that reduce the incidence of one disease will increase the incidence of another."Yet, it is precisely when things go wrong that we need Murphy. And so, perhaps somewhat more grimly than usual, we proceed to cull the kernel of Murphological truth behind the medical miracle.The more serious the occasion, the more we are moved to philosophy, to seek a glimpse of the larger picture, where our feeble strivings can be seen in the context of the whole.Eventually we arrive at what might be called The Tao of Murphy (with apologies to Lao Tzu). Simply put, "The error that can be known is not the true error."