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Is there a more arrogant profession (collectively) than medicine? From the article, a mere 60 years later: ME is not a psychological problem. And a wish:
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Is there a more arrogant profession (collectively) than medicine? From the article, a mere 60 years later:
ME is not a psychological problem.
And a wish:
Jose Montoya, professor of medicine at the
University of Stanford, said: “I have a wish
and a dream that medical and scientific
societies will apologise to their ME patients."
Any bets on if and when that apology will happen? Have doctors ever even apologized for bloodletting? E.g. they killed George Washington:
By the time the three physicians finished their
treatments and bloodletting of the President,
there had been a massive volume of blood loss—half
or more of his total blood content was removed
over the course of just a few hours.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_washington#Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_washington#Death
- jnbiche 11y ago> Is there a more arrogant profession (collectively) than medicine? Surgery?
- cheez 11y agoOh god. I was playing hockey a few weeks back with some new guys and at the end of the games, we started shooting the shit. I asked the goalie what he did for work: "I'm a doctor". "Oh cool, my brother is a doctor as well." "Where?" "<some hospital>" "Oh, I work there as well. What department?" "<the department>" "Oh, haha, I'm a surgeon" I lost it laughing.
- Jtsummers 11y ago> Have doctors ever even apologized for bloodletting? E.g. they killed George Washington Who's left to apologize and to whom would they apologize? It's not like "doctor" is a hereditary title or anything. Doctors today have little to do with what happened then, other than being able to view what happened and observe the consequences to learn from it.
- xlm1717 11y agoWhat stupid times we live in, that we demand apologies for everything and from everyone, even people who have been buried for 200 years!