Reminder

In clinical practice (and many other sector of business and industry), when we come to realize it is a common trap to fail to recognize what should be there is not there, it is the time to put up check lists and protocols.

And, that's the main purpose of these inevitable evils. Guidelines and protocols should not be there to govern what clinicians do; they are reminders to physicians - after all the work and do the things that we feel important and appropriate, they give the safe-guard and make sure no major area has not been taken care of, and, as the old English sayings, no stone left unturned.

Unfortunately, this very principle is not appreciated by most extra-terrestrials who put up guidelines and protocols.

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This discussion, however, applies only to clinical practice - and probably business and industry. We want every details to be correct or conform to a desirable standard. In daily life - as in the example of promoting the bidding of Asian Game that I put up yesterday - the situation is quite the opposite.

What I mean is, it is in fact very unlikely to have everything that should be there is there.

As Philo Vance said (in The Canary Murder Case): Nothing flawless is natural or genuine.

And, as compare to asking what should be there is not there, it takes a even harder work of the brain to be able to ask: This appears flawless, who's making it up ?

I have paranoid personality disorder, I know.