I just finished the book The Knife Man, The extraordinary Life and
Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore.
Prior to his times, surgeons still relied on medieval traditions. His approach was to try the traditional method, analyze the outcome, form a hypothesis on how to improve, implement his results. This was his scientific method, based on reasoning, observation and experimentation. He started practicing in 1748. As far as I can tell stroke rehabilitation is still in medieval times, the scientific method has barely been broached for this. If we had a place to put and read about stroke rehab case studies that would help tremendously. I can correlate anything to stroke rehab, maybe I should try the book, Everything I know I learned about in Kindergarten.
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