Medicine is currently conservative by design. ‘First, do no harm’. This approach has pros and cons: too slow to adopt surgeon hand-washing, but too fast to ado

Medicine is currently conservative by design. ‘First, do no harm’. This approach has pros and cons: too slow to adopt surgeon hand-washing, but too fast to adopt Thalidomide. A few thousand years of experience has led us to err on he side of being conservative these days. Combine this culture with lack of spare time for young doctors, lack of immediate incentives to save patient money, and lack of exposure to IT innovations, and I can totally see them being slow to adopt new tech.