Variably referred to as chance, a majority of people view it as a negative-if not consciously, then subconsciously. How we view it and how we manage it is a subject with compelling ramifications. Chinese culture has long linked risk net with opportunity. By treating risk as a double-sided coin, one suddenly embraces a duality of options. By applying calculations to these options, one controls the degree to which one puts something at risk.
Physicians are royalty in the world of risk.
Pity the investment banker who holds the fate of a large corporation in his or her hands. The cardiac surgeon holds a living, beating heart. But with the onset of modem statistics came the actuary, whose job it was to determine the probabilities of risk's occurrence. The actuarial table became a slide rule of life's trials. Merely looking at one could bring on a depression.