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Originally Posted by RichL025
A LARGE amount of what we do in medicine is based on decision-making like above... generalizing the results of large studies to individual patients and trying to make rational treatment decisions.
So, in a very long winded way, I probably didn't answer your question as to whether the prophy abx saved the patient from cellulitis  ... but hopefully I showed you a little of the reason why it's not a straightfoward question...
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RichL025,
not at all. That was elaborate and clear actually. I used to view doctors as gods before I entered the healthcare/medical world. Now I understand why it's called "practicing medicine," and that there are treatments used simply based on beneficial empirical result ie. ECT as opposed to well-understood causality.
Thank you for taking the time educating me.
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