The Myth of Medicine: 9/30/12

Arthroscopy to treat osteoarthritis of the knee? | Medical Journal of Australia: "Changing clinician beliefs and behaviour in response to credible evidence of lack of treatment efficacy remains highly challenging"

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why doctors did not react as individuals to such an incomprehensible assertion

“I cannot help but wonder how such a situation came to develop… If I had been told by a physician, no matter how senior, that infants don’t feel pain, I would never have believed it. What constitutes the difference between my reaction and that of the thousands of physicians who did believe it?” Jill Lawson, 1988

In a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine she questioned why doctors did not react as individuals to such an incomprehensible assertion.

The reasons why doctors traditionally take so long to question dogma are complex but we are known to be a rather conservative group of people. As late as 1974, experiments were still being conducted to ascertain whether infants felt pain.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Arthroscopy to treat osteoarthritis of the knee? | Medical Journal of Australia