> They listen to symptoms, make an educated guess at a root cause based on limited information, make an educated guess at what might resolve the situation, and then wait to hear back if that fixed it; if it didn't, the loop continues.
Having been a mechanic and having worked with a lot of MDs, unfortunately, neither profession really works that way anymore.
Mostly, you're taking symptoms, yes, but then you use a computer system to 'help' educate your guesses. By 'help' here, I mean that most mechanics and MDs just kinda blindly plug the symptoms into the computer and then start reading.
These systems have pretty detailed stats on the possible causes and fixes, what you should go check out again to get more data for the computer, etc.
Both sets of systems can pretty reliably turn a C level person into a B+/A- level person. As such the subscriptions are worth every penny.
Having been a mechanic and having worked with a lot of MDs, unfortunately, neither profession really works that way anymore.
Mostly, you're taking symptoms, yes, but then you use a computer system to 'help' educate your guesses. By 'help' here, I mean that most mechanics and MDs just kinda blindly plug the symptoms into the computer and then start reading.
These systems have pretty detailed stats on the possible causes and fixes, what you should go check out again to get more data for the computer, etc.
Both sets of systems can pretty reliably turn a C level person into a B+/A- level person. As such the subscriptions are worth every penny.
Mechanics (in my day) use AllData : https://www.alldata.com/us/en/repair
MDs use UpToDate : https://www.uptodate.com/login