Overview
The human body is an extremely complex, tightly interwoven organism in which every component— subsystem, organ, and body part—matters. There is little true redundancy, and the body’s apparent simplicity is an illusion created by the fact that most days nothing dramatic breaks. Yet unforeseen events do occur: malfunctions, diseases, unexpected cascades, and failures that propagate far beyond the initial site. This behavior is not a defect of medicine; it is the natural expression of a tightly coupled biological system.
