Scientists on television's medical forensic dramas can solve crime in less than an hour. With a few gadgets and some very intuitive thinking, CSI's Gil Grissom puts the whole story together for us week after week: case closed.
Insurance adjusters and investigators deal with losses every day involving not people, but things — machines, products, etc. — yet, rarely see such simple and tidy solutions. In this day and age, why is it so difficult to determine the root cause of equipment failure and the subsequent effect it has on a business?
Medical forensics has one huge advantage: humans essentially come in only one model with two main option packages, and the design has remained unchanged for thousands of years. Although no one has gotten the designer on the phone lately to ask a question, the unchanging nature of the equipment allows knowledge, diagnostic procedures, and diagnostic equipment to improve steadily with time. Thus, huge medical infrastructures are built up and our collective knowledge of the human body is quite thorough.
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