The fruit hung lower back then but now we have taller ladders. We've learned a lot since the 1960s. That blog entry is interesting but it's based on an article

The fruit hung lower back then but now we have taller ladders. We've learned a lot since the 1960s. That blog entry is interesting but it's based on an article Malcom Gladwell wrote about DeVita's book; the author says he hadn't read the book himself. It does make some good points. I feel there ought to be a middle ground, where physicians are professionally expected to base decisions on good science (rather than "our patients would vomit on the way home if we gave them the effective dose"), but also we don't have government officials prohibiting terminal patients from getting treatments that oncologists think could help them.