This is not radically different than how many psych pharmaceuticals are prescribed! You try drug 1 for a few weeks, see if it works and if you can tolerate the side effects - if you can't, you ask your doc for drug 2 and repeat until you find one that does. Ideally yes, we'd have a better theory of how it all works and just skip right to drug 13 for you and it magically works best, but we aren't there yet.
Yea. I think this is a more accepted way of doing things when your field is honest about "this stuff is way too complex for us to reason our way through." Medicine in general seems to be a lot of throwing poop at the wall and seeing what sticks - lots of drugs are tested for one thing, and it's found to do something else (too).
This is not radically different than how many psych pharmaceuticals are prescribed! You try drug 1 for a few weeks, see if it works and if you can tolerate the side effects - if you can't, you ask your doc for drug 2 and repeat until you find one that does. Ideally yes, we'd have a better theory of how it all works and just skip right to drug 13 for you and it magically works best, but we aren't there yet.
Yea. I think this is a more accepted way of doing things when your field is honest about "this stuff is way too complex for us to reason our way through." Medicine in general seems to be a lot of throwing poop at the wall and seeing what sticks - lots of drugs are tested for one thing, and it's found to do something else (too).