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Originally Posted by Willravel
But what about duplicating an aqueduct capable of withstanding freezing temperatures when only limestone is available? Or what about duplicating an aqueduct capable of withstanding freezing temperatures when it moves close to the border of an enemy? Clearly, it's not as simple as just one problem. There are a myriad of variables involved in planning to build, building, and reproducing an aqueduct. No two aqueducts are exactly the same, just as no two minds are exactly the same. That also goes for neurologists.
Just like one method of making the aqueduct stronger may be to widen the base for one project, but using that same technique on a different project would fail because it's being built on an area that has groundwater and the weight would make it sink.
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I feel that you are missing my point. When a patient has an issue with depression, there are many possible medications that may or may not work. The Psychiatrist listens to the patient, makes some decisions and prescribes what they see as the best possible medication. It may or may not work.
An engineer needs to build an aqueduct. He looks at the site and materials available, draws up plans, and then builds it. It works. Let's take it up to a modern serious engineering task. Skyscrapers. There is no room for failure in the construction of a skyscraper. But once plans are drawn up and construction begins and then ends, it has to ALREADY work. They can't look at it a few months after completion and say, "I don't think this grade of steel is working for these support beams. Next week we'll remove them and put some stronger alloy beams in their place."
The physics, the chemistry and the engineering all have to basically take place preemptively to the task, and be dead accurate the first time around before construction begins. The psychiatrist makes an educated guess, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. If it doesn't, they make another guess. Do you see the difference?