My nephew’s wife is an infectious disease doctor, the I.D. head expert at her hosipital, with a few Wuhan virus patients, north of Manhattan. SHE does not wear a mask “in public” universally, regardless of context. I think she knows what she is doing.
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I will grab the beast and risk ridicule and being totally wrong in this case.
The majority of young doctors have educated in different paradigm than the old guys. The new ones often brag about practicing “Best Evidence” medicine. They primarily rely on algorithms and flow charts and have to learn to rely on experience and their own senses and analytical judgments.
A lot of the old school docs might disagree with her.
“A lot of the old school docs might disagree with her.”
I would call her an old school doc and certainly not one “bragging about practicing best medicine”. She never threw antibiotics at her kids when they were growing up and does not “primarily rely on algorithms and flow charts”, having been taught well in the 1980s here and abroad by other old school docs. What she does not do is react to unsubstantiated claims, yet, in emergenies and for the life of her patients she does not restrict herself to all FDA mandates. She has applied Hydroxychloroquine to some of her Covid-19 patients, after considering concerns about regarding patients with certain pre-existing conditions.
You should not assume you know others whom you do not know.