Too Much Medicine?: Healthcare and Modern Society

Too much medicine; too little care.

A growing frustration in clinical medicine is that we are now so busy managing the proliferation of risk factors, “incidentalomas,” and the worried well that we lack the time to care properly for those who are seriously ill. As the definitions of common conditions such as diabetes and kidney disease have expanded and the categories and boundaries of mental disorders have grown, our time and att...

Precision Medicine — Too Much Precision , Not Enough Medicine ?

he problem is that human biology and disease are far too complex to ever be described with total precision. The same is true for that most precise of the sciences, physics. I doubt that we will ever completely understand the real world. Only God is supposed to be able to do that. Human knowledge is fractal: the more you know about any subject, the more questions arise. That’s why the best scien...

Grids meet Too much Computing , Too much Data and never Too much Simplicity

Let us discuss: Grids are taking too long to solve the wrong problem at the wrong point in stack with a complexity that makes friendly usability difficult. We furthermore observe that Grids (as envisioned c. 2001) are being pressured by both emerging new computing resources (multicore, cell processors, GPUs, reconfigurable computing, etc) and alternative approaches to service architectures (col...

Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe

How much is too much?

An investigation of the effect of the number of choice sets, starting point and the choice of bid vectors in choice experiments