Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o...
by SkyPuncher on Saturday January 05, 2019 @12:16PM
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> The medical profession needs to figure out how to use technology more effectively in its processes.
My wife is in med school. It has nothing to do with technology.
It comes down to an insane risk aversion present throughout all of medicine. If you can't prove an alternative method is empirically better, it won't even get tried. If it's not tried, you can't get the numbers.
Even when things are obvious improvements or carry limited down-sides, the whole medical field is hesitant to pursue them.
My wife is in med school. It has nothing to do with technology.
It comes down to an insane risk aversion present throughout all of medicine. If you can't prove an alternative method is empirically better, it won't even get tried. If it's not tried, you can't get the numbers.
Even when things are obvious improvements or carry limited down-sides, the whole medical field is hesitant to pursue them.