Yes, but they’re also the sum of prejudices, irrational convictions, short-circuited reasoning processes, and other biases.
Gawande discusses the decision to try to remove only the affected tissue rather than go for amputation—a decision which seems to work out. Then he asks how he and the other doctors knew they could spare the leg.
That’s a fundamental failure, changing a guess to knowledge in highsight.
Yes, but they’re also the sum of prejudices, irrational convictions, short-circuited reasoning processes, and other biases.
Gawande discusses the decision to try to remove only the affected tissue rather than go for amputation—a decision which seems to work out. Then he asks how he and the other doctors knew they could spare the leg.
That’s a fundamental failure, changing a guess to knowledge in highsight.