Bad Medicine: Reassurance?

摘要

I get tired of fighting but sometimes fighting is your only option. Medicine isn’t static: it’s in constant flux and currently the pace of change has its foot on the floor. Crisis is forcing change whether we like it or not.The certainties of the past like enforced bed rest post-surgery, tonsillectomy, most of clinical examination, antibiotics for colds, and breast screening (and possibly all other variants of screening) will soon pass into history as being certainly pointless, if not downright dangerous medical care. But medicine is a belief system and these beliefs only end with …