[MPBK]

Originally Posted by Germanauto

Where I come from it is considered STEM.

Can't get into medical school or even make it thought without excelling in the "exact sciences." Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, etc. are all fundamental in medical studies and associated research.

That may be, but medicine itself is far from exact. Just because a few exact sciences are pre-requisite does not make medicine exact.
There's no "human trials" in computer sciences, for example. There's beta testing, but that is very different. If it doesn't work for you, and you describe the problem accurately, I can reproduce the bug and fix it.
Not possible with pills and other medication.
Medicine adds the human factor in the equation, and that makes everything inexact.
Hey, you still need to excel in exact sciences. In particular statistics, to figure out how often a medication works. lol
But you wouldn't be able to tell me exactly if it will work for me.

[aozer]

Originally Posted by MPBK

That may be, but medicine itself is far from exact. Just because a few exact sciences are pre-requisite does not make medicine exact.
There's no "human trials" in computer sciences, for example. There's beta testing, but that is very different. If it doesn't work for you, and you describe the problem accurately, I can reproduce the bug and fix it.
Not possible with pills and other medication.
Medicine adds the human factor in the equation, and that makes everything inexact.
Hey, you still need to excel in exact sciences. In particular statistics, to figure out how often a medication works. lol
But you wouldn't be able to tell me exactly if it will work for me.

Engineering is hardly exact. Almost everything is an approximation, nothing is ever manufactured exactly to spec. It’s why we have process corners in semiconductor fabrication, for example.

[TheWatchGuy]

Originally Posted by aozer

Engineering is hardly exact. Almost everything is an approximation, nothing is ever manufactured exactly to spec. It’s why we have process corners in semiconductor fabrication, for example.

theres a difference in tolerances "exactness" and medical "exactness"

medical also isnt a STEM field in the traditional sense.

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