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In the medical field, cases of interventions being harmful are not rare, and entire classes of interventions have been reconsidered in light of evidence.
by throw_pm23 4y ago
In the medical field, cases of interventions being harmful are not rare, and entire classes of interventions have been reconsidered in light of evidence.
- littlestymaar 4y agoThere's several billion medical intervention of all kinds every year, harmful interventions do exist but they are only a very tiny fraction of the total.
- throw_pm23 4y agoYes, but there are _kinds of_ interventions which turned out to be systematically harmful. For instance, in most developed countries it was a policy to thoroughly wash newborns, until they realized it was harmful.
- littlestymaar 4y agoTrue, but if you look at the entire collection of kinds of intervention you'll find that the harmful kinds are also a small fraction of them.