Analysis explores chance and probability in medical practice, suggesting the role of karma in decision-making.
As exhorted by the Bhagavad Gita, physicians do their best karma to manage a patient. The uncertainties and chance can never be altogether eliminated from medical practice despite using best practices because of inherent human and environmental variations. No management is perfect with a 100% probability of success in all cases. The outcome remains with him. The physicians and the patients need to be reminded of this limitation all the time.
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