Clash of civilizations: Medical versus the World version

Posted On Jul 23, 2020 By admin With Comments Off

During this Covid-1 9 pandemic, I ought to have abiding residence and putting a lot of trust in remedy assured that they will find a way to get us through this. What else can I do? I don’t know about the domain, so I defer to the experts.But, several months in to the quarantine, with the cloudburst of disheartening news about deficiency of progress on this problem, I am getting more and more worried, agitated, and restless. I am sensing I am not alone. There is a clash of civilizations brewing between medical and settle parties, and maybe more relevant for my subject, between medical and IT people. OK, this is how we will do this. I will firstly give you off-the-cuffs explains from the Cynical Murat. I know that Cynical Murat is wrong in numerous arranges, because I don’t know anything about medicine and he is a caricaturized copy of myself to voice my insecurities/ worries about the situation.( Oh God, this is getting weird .) So I can’t just leave you with his rant. I follow that up with a response from another IT researcher/ practitioner, but someone who had collaborated with medical parties a great deal in the last 10+ years.Rants from the Cynical Murat Let me start by saying that I acclaim the ER physicians/ nurses for their fortitude and selfless relinquishes. I doubt that I would be able to raise to that height, if I were in their place.( I am scornful, but I am not a jerk .) My impression about the medical people is that they are failing this evaluation. They have been very slow to spread best practices and act on them. The invasive ventilators is not seem effective( very low survival rates) but they are being used, because it is the “procedure”. The proning procedure was still not practiced even after months. They are slow to act on re-purposing existing stimulants. We still don’t have a good understanding of the illness. Antibody and inoculation progress has uncertain time horizons.If the entire world, 7 billion people, the authorities concerned, their own economies, were holding their sighs waiting for an “IT problem” to be resolved, regardless of how difficult that question is, we are to be able interpret much better progress in the IT domain. For speciman, the Y2K problem was resolved without any fuss. People came together, best practises were openly shared, and things came arranged out quickly.Why don’t we hear a same coordinated quick response from Medical side? 1. Is it because IT/ tech beings have better implements and networking? Then we should try to help by giving the medical people better tools and networking support for collaboration. 2. Is it because the IT domain difficulties are intrinsically easier?( If we had 1% slam proportion in servers in a gather, we wouldn’t even care. We would just replace hurtled servers sporadically, as it is not a big deal. Nobody dies .) 3. Or is it because of the intrinsic “slow” culture in medicine? The culture in IT/ tech is innovate and obstructed. Try many different onslaughts on a problem, including peripheral attempts from left field. When the accolade is this big, IT/ tech would be necessary to humbling things. Maybe there is also an incentive problem in medicine? The scientists don’t investigate enough of the reward, which prevents the mobs of scientists working on the problem.I think we need some of that IT chutzpah to attack this question. For speciman, go Paul Buchheit. He doesn’t know shit about the problem domain, but he is trying and he is ambitious . Well, that is my rant. I recognize the domains are very different, and I don’t know anything about medicine. But there seems to be a big mismatch between their own efforts/ decisions out there compared to what this crisis involves. And this is not even a very potent bug, I am afraid of worse things to come.Response from my smart friend First, realize this: “There is much more to health care than algorithms.”( Got this quote, by a doctor at Iowa, in an MIT Tech Review article about Google’s AI) Second, the doctors I work with, an infectious disease specialist, says we have known about and been using proning for twenty years.Third, the common cold is a coronavirus but it is so slight it is not a disastrous epidemic. Why hasn’t medicine been able to cure or have a vaccine against common cold? Why don’t we have inoculations for malaria, for AIDS, etc? Maybe some things are hard, maybe the coronavirus house( in general) is one of those, but now more coin and intensive endeavours are being propelled at it than ever before, because SARS-CoV-2 is a leading cause of death, for now.Fourth, about being slow, it is true that medical experiment is deliberate. Two far-famed incidents( and there are more) have cause medicine to be deliberate. One was thalidomide which tempered the free-wheeling pharmacy attitudes; another was the Tuskegee study. Because of these and other examples, the formal system of morals clogs progress in medicine. And in the US, we have this horrible public/ private, assurance/ profit bureaucracy. More recently, there is a call for even more careful and deliberate experiment due to the replication crisis, p-value hacking, and the like.Fifth, you( like countless VC sorts) have observed that software parties are super smart and could solve these things swiftly if have the opportunity. So why don’t you? You are much smarter than Elizabeth Holmes :)( Murat’s mention: I is and remains uncertain if this was written to be cynical or super sarcastic .) Likewise, you might want to take a look at this, which, I make, marks some in the medical community judge quite a heap about their duty and methods.ConclusionsWell, the medical people, they think differently, they toil differently, but they are very smart parties. So the Cynical Murat is jumping to conclusions prematurely.We the IT parties should first make sure we do all we can to help, before we start to criticize Medical research. For example, we still couldn’t get our shit together solving the disinformation warfare problem, which is a critical problem during these trying and difficult times.( Yes, I worked this in a sentence lastly without backhanded .) It seems hypocritical to criticize the medical people about being gradual, before we are also able do that.There is also able to be various other important questions we can and should help with.