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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Funny you should mention this. My daughter had an Aneurysm in the neck 6mths ago, rare for a young person. It took 6 specialists, very many MRI scans (not good when your young), being constantly sent home with panadol before finally refered to an out of left field neurologist at north shore, the sort of specialist so hard to get you have to be near death (and it got that close) to apply a decidedly non scientific approach based entirely on years of experience to solve the problem, quickly.
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Medicine is one of those disciplines where its foundation is in science, but you cannot apply a purely scientific method to its practice in an individual. Much of medicine is about understanding the statistical likelihood of a diagnosis/treatment option and how that changes after a diagnostic test, but using common sense and judgement to vary from the usual treatment and diagnostic path. There is a common saying in medicine, that when medical students hear hooves, they think of Zebra's, never horses. But occasionally in medicine, they really are Zebra's - you just have to apply experience, judgement and common sense to know when thats more likely.
Astrophotography is similar in that there is a very solid scientific basis to the capture of images and the image quality, and what can be done to improve signal to noise ratios, but there is also a subjective element in the processing where individual preference in image colour and emphasis varies - a much more artistic framework.