Medicine

Roles: patient, healer, diagnosis, symptom, treatment, cure, disease, recovery, relapse

The practice of diagnosing, treating, and curing illness in a living body. As a source domain, medicine provides a rich causal structure: symptoms indicate underlying conditions, diagnosis precedes treatment, treatment aims at cure or management, and recovery is never guaranteed. The frame is especially productive for abstract targets (relationships, economies, societies) because it implies that problems have identifiable causes and that expert intervention can restore health.

As Source Frame (34)

• A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure → decision-making
• AI Hallucination Is Perception Disorder → artificial-intelligence
• AI Is a Prosthesis → artificial-intelligence
• All Bleeding Stops → decision-making
• Analysis Paralysis → decision-making
• Cancer Surgery Formula → economics
• Differential Diagnosis → decision-making, epistemology
• Director as Obstetrician → theatrical-directing
• Do As Much Nothing As Possible → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• First Do No Harm → ethics-and-morality, decision-making
• Hoofbeats, Think Horses
• Identity Crisis → mental-experience, social-dynamics
• If You Don't Look, You Won't Find → decision-making
• Knowing When Not to Operate → decision-making
• Love Is a Patient → love-and-relationships
• Mental Health Is Physical Health → mental-experience
• Never Let the Sun Set on Undrained Pus → decision-making
• Philosophy Is Medicine → philosophy
• Primary Maternal Preoccupation
• Prognosis as Forecast → decision-making, economics
• Prompt Injection → agent-security
• Second Opinion → decision-making
• See One, Do One, Teach One → education
• Side Effects → decision-making, software-engineering
• Surgical Precision → decision-making, war
• Take Your Own Pulse → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• The Cure Is Worse Than the Disease → decision-making
• The Patient Is the One with the Disease → decision-making, leadership-and-management
• Tincture of Time → decision-making
• Treat the Patient, Not the Test
• Triage → decision-making, software-engineering
• Virus → computing
• Vital Signs → decision-making, systems-thinking
• Young Doctors Kill, Old Doctors Let Die → decision-making

Applied To This Frame (4)

• war → Illness Is an Invader
• ecology → Seed and Soil
• war → Treating Illness Is Fighting a War
• science-fiction → Tricorder Is Universal Sensor