Re:A new book critiques medicine
by mistermann on Sunday July 14, 2019 @03:56PM
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This lines up extremely well with my personal experiences over the years.
It makes total sense if you think about it: medicine is an infinitely complex field, and at the end of the day even though doctors have (in the past) undertaken significant training, they are still human beings, subject to the same limitations and errors as the rest of us.
New discoveries and nuanced understandings are made in medicine constantly, the idea that it is safe to assume that any individual doctor is going to know and understand all discoveries seems to me like extremely wishful thinking.
It makes total sense if you think about it: medicine is an infinitely complex field, and at the end of the day even though doctors have (in the past) undertaken significant training, they are still human beings, subject to the same limitations and errors as the rest of us.
New discoveries and nuanced understandings are made in medicine constantly, the idea that it is safe to assume that any individual doctor is going to know and understand all discoveries seems to me like extremely wishful thinking.