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Reminds me of that poor guy who told surgeons they should wash their hands. They didn't take kindly to that.
by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Reminds me of that poor guy who told surgeons they should wash their hands. They didn't take kindly to that.
- LeonB 5y agoI’d give the doctor above a little more credit than that, and also would expect the papers she dislikes to be far less impactful than that. Clinicians I know who get frustrated with academic research that draws conclusions about clinical work are criticising papers that are more like this: (I’m exaggerating for effect, but not exaggerating a lot) “People think this clinical technique is effective. But when some academics with very little clinical experience performed a rough approximation of the technique, in the wrong area, with the wrong tools, in the wrong way, on a small number of randomly chosen patients, they found it performed no better than placebo. Therefore no one should use that technique on any patient.”
- IG_Semmelweiss 5y agoThat would be Ignaz Semmelweiss. I think you are understating his actual life outcome for having challenged the medical establishment with hard proof. Poor doesn't begin to describe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweiss