“The advances on the laboratory side and the perfection of instruments have added much to our powers of diagnosis, but they have given some men the idea that they are everything and the use of one’s eyes and hands is looked on as old-fashioned. The man whose first idea in an obscure thoracic case is to have an x-ray plate taken and who cannot “bother” with physical signs does not deserve the name diagnostician.” – Thomas McCrae
It works both ways—we are shaped by tech, but we also create tech. You need to look from both perspectives.
Related:
- 7-1b4b You can let the tech decide what are the problems to be solved. Otherwise, it will decide by itself. It’s about possibility and not about should.
- 7-1b4f Let the tech decide where to go (both intellectually and physically)
- 7-1f Developing in anticipation of development cost cheapening is a form of investment