Friday, August 26, 2016

The Big Dirty Secret Every Doctor Knows

This paragraph from there is instructive: Not being allowed to question the process. In stroke that leads to disaster where survivors haven't been progressing in decades because no one tells the emperor that he has no clothes. No one challenges the 'experts'.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/CardioBrief/59481?xid=fb_p_ms

But the responsibility for eminence-based medicine goes well beyond the elite coterie of experts. The real problem is the culture of medicine, which rewards the hubris of eminence and actively punishes or offers subtle disincentives to anyone who question this process.

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