What the question needs

A corridor, or there is nothing to intervene in. Drift, or nothing calls for intervention. An operator, or the question is incoherent — a rock has no medicine. And a larger structure, because the body cannot heal itself for every failure. The physician, the hospital, the food supply, the housing, the people around it.

That larger structure is the organism — one resolution above the body. Medicine is what the organism does on behalf of the bodies inside it.

So the question, asked properly: at what level should the organism intervene to keep the corridor open, and what is the minimum that achieves it?

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

The same page on the420code.org: the420code.org/models/applications/05-medicine-and-the-viability-corridor/