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I think the same thing.

That said, I think engineers seem to believe other careers should use logic in a straightforward fashion, but they are more complicated.

For example, lawyers cannot use logic in the same way, because the court can almost arbitrarily say some facts must be ignored.

In the same way, medicine has the hippocratic oath. It is "do no harm". It is not "find the cause" or "cure the patient".

It seems doctors have made their peace with this and are aligned with it, since the overwhelming majority 88% have do-not-resuscitate orders for themselves.



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