FX and Medicine – Part 2: Hypothesis Testing Work

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The theme this time is FX and medicine ~ Part 2: Hypothesis testing work.

In medical settings, or rather the human body itself, there are many entirely unknown aspects, and beyond a certain line it is not uncommon to grope for causes through trial and error.

Of course, in school, internships, and training, we learn the minimum necessary knowledge.

By the way, the minimum knowledge to be learned in medicine is enormous in itself just by its quantity.

Starting from human anatomy, then functional topics like movement, physiology, and biochemistry, and then medical science, pathology, hygiene, and so on—truly diverse and wide-ranging.

However, no matter how much knowledge you cram in, that is only the minimum knowledge required to stand in the medical field.

You have only just reached the starting line.

Beyond that, there is no other way to guarantee the quality of medical care than to relentlessly continue refining knowledge and skills.

This refinement of knowledge and technique becomes “experience.”

That accumulation of experience leads to forming a “hypothesis” about a certain phenomenon.

For example, let’s take shoulder pain as an illustration.

Person A is complaining of shoulder pain.

There is a need to take some action, but if the cause is unknown, you don’t know what to do.

If the cause is circulatory impairment from cold around the shoulder muscles, warming and a light massage might solve it.

But if it’s red, swollen, and touching it causes severe pain, perhaps cooling and rest would be advised instead.

Therefore, first, it is important to identify the cause, and to do that, you must formulate many hypotheses and test them.

The causes of shoulder pain could be the muscles, bones, joints, skin, blood, or perhaps the tilting of internal organs or nerve stimulation...

By forming hypotheses from various angles and testing them, you move closer to the root cause.

This “hypothesis testing work” is performed daily in the medical field.

Now, here comes FX.

Yes, this article’s major theme is FX.

As you may have already noticed, FX is in fact a sequence of this same “hypothesis testing work.”