points by matheusmoreira 4 days ago | 0 comments
Yeah. Medical practice is often based on purely statistical statements like "in case of A associated with conditions B if you do C you'll help D% of the patients". Sometimes looking up a drug's mechanism of action yields nothing, literature just says it's unclear and gives us some educated guesses if we're lucky. Makes me a little sad that medicine has been reduced to this instead of the romantic "understand how the body works, how it fails and how to fix it" ideal.
[–] melagonster 4 days ago