One day I opened the web site of a local bank to check my account balance to find an advertisement that amused me. It read:
Banks should only treat you like a number if your mum named you "00-1247-6578-000."
Similarly I have heard a radio advertisement of personalised car licence number plates which goes like this:
If you don't call the dog you love "BCD345", why do that with your car?
Then what do you expect from nurse stereotype as "an angel in white" with regard to treating her client? It would be far from treating you like a number, wouldn't it?
Surely so was the original "the Angel in White", Florence Nightingale in the legendary service in the Crimean War but actually she was also a competent mathematician.
Sun Tzu said, "Many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat."
Her approach to patient care was based on statistical evidence and she was more a strategist than a tactician as an epidemiologist. So her victory was brought by many calculations as well as her dedication.
The English texts of Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War' are from The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Art of War, by Sun Zu
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