Scientific arrogance is commonplace. Physicians consider themselves to be experts in their own field. If a majority of physicians do not endorse a new therapy, they collectively rely on public recognition of their own "expertise" to discount a new concept that they themselves have not yet embraced. They forget that all great advances in medicine began with a small minority. Their thinking tends to follow along these lines: "If I'm the expert and I don't use this new therapy and if my many colleagues and peers are experts and they don't believe in the new therapy, then we must be right and that small group of physicians who believe differently must be wrong. We're the experts."
http://drcranton.com/chelation/carter.htm
OH, have you touched on my HUGE issue now!
I am currently crippled due to an OTJ accident (My rt knee hyperextended backwards, and the kneecap dislocated axially!). I have had 1 surgery, and there is a massive complication...but other than the original surgeon...every frickin' Orthopaedist has called it Chondromalacia with the kneecap...it AIN'T THE FRICKIN' KNEECAP! It's medial INSIDE the actual feomoral joint!
They are all NO better than the Leeches of the 8th Century! They plug the lastest drug (because they get lovely goodies for doing so, and don't think the law changes have stopped THAT process!), and they all go for the easiest answer, rather than LISTENING to an itelligent patient who has CONSISTENTLY described the SAME FRICKIN' pain and issues since the accident!
The Medical Profession is stocked by the very same OVEREDJUMIKATED IDIOTS that plague Society in General.
If these clowns took their Porsche to a mechanic who simply changed the oil every time, no matter HOW much noise the engine made...would THEY tolerate it?
YEESH!