Posted on 01/09/2023 6:21:56 AM PST by MtnClimber
Good medicine is asking questions and forming a differential diagnosis, ruling out possibilities based on science, not on politics.
Medicine, like most sciences, entails thinking and hypothesis creation to explain the myriad complexities of the healthy and diseased human body.
Hypotheses are tested and refined, with new information or insights nudging or abruptly shifting current knowledge in a new direction.
For examples, bloodletting with leeches is no longer standard medical practice for most ailments as it was up until the late 19th century. More recently, Vioxx was considered a safer painkiller, until it was found to cause heart attacks and strokes, similar to another “safe and effective” product introduced about two years ago. Oxycontin was marketed as a nonaddictive pain killer until it devasted hundreds of thousands of lives and families and was shown to be otherwise.
Physicians, upon medical school graduation, recite the Hippocratic Oath. Quoting from the revised version (simply because the language is easier to understand), physicians swear, “I will not be ashamed to say, ‘I know not’” and “Above all, I must not play at God.”
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Japan’s Unit 731 springs to my mind.
The US let them get away with what they did in exchange for access to their research.
I recently read many med schools funded with a lot of NIH money, so the teaching and students are in lockstep with them.
“ What is your opinion of the impact of Obama Care?”
Weak positive. The underlying assumption of the collapsing system is that third party payment (“insurance”) is the right way to pay hospitals.
This is almost certainly wrong.
But - if you keep that system, and find a way to get payments for uninsured people (which is what “Obamacare” is) - then you may stave off collapse by a few years.
HCQ +/- azithromycin was part of our standard order set from February - June 2020.
Never had a problem from CDC or FDA. It was also on the MGH standard order set until May 2020.
Based on Didier Raoult’s work in Marseille, it was certainly worth trying - but it was obvious after a few months it didn’t have any measurable effect.
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