"medical dogma may be more prevalent today than in the past because intolerance for different opinions is on the rise, in medicine as throughout society." I th

"medical dogma may be more prevalent today than in the past because intolerance for different opinions is on the rise, in medicine as throughout society." I think a large part of that is perceived liability. Remember when Covid19 first hit, there was a doctor claiming an early treatment prevented his cases from getting bad. That one sticks with me not because I think he was right, but because the response was "That's not an FDA approved treatment for this." It wasn't just him, but others as well. The problem is there was NO approved treatment for it. To me it looked like doctors being afraid they'd get blamed for doing anything off the beaten path, so much that they were afraid even when there was no path. Such is the world we live in...