The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.

Wightman, S. C. (2022). The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 114(3).

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2022

DOI

10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.03.027

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.03.027

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philosophy

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Primes

• Nirvana Fallacy
  • In medicine, a treatment is refused or delayed because it is not curative, when the comparison is to no treatment rather than to a hypothetical cure.

    This sourceClinical commentary arguing that limiting treatment to ideal/perfect candidates leaves few patients treated, and that a non-ideal intervention offering partial benefit is preferable to withholding care — the medical instance of comparing a treatment to no treatment rather than to a cure.

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