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I know we've seen it in our everyday lives, but heck, I want to know why something like this can happen!? Don't we mean well? Then why does it sometimes go wrong!?
Well... I thought a little bit and came to the conclusion that a good reason why we sometimes get opposite results and ulitmately fail when trying to fix a problem, is that we don't know "all the facts". Even though we might think that we're tackling the situation correctly, we might be completely off!
Here is a good (but maybe naive) example:
A friend wrote: I am a medical student currently doing a rotation in toxicology at the poison control center. Today, this woman called in very upset because she caught her little daughter eating ants. I quickly reassured her that the ants are not harmful and there would be no need to bring her daughter into the hospital. She calmed down, and at the end of the conversation she mentioned that she intelligently gave her daughter some ant poison to eat in order to kill the ants. I sent an ambulance right away!
Posted by 99.99 at [7:10 PM]
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