Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong, and What It Means for Our Health
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only 20% of OB/GYN residents surveyed some ten years later reported being taught about menopause in their training.
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telling women to avoid HRT because it causes breast cancer may have been the biggest error in modern medicine.
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It used to take 21 years on average for bacteria to become resistant to a new antibiotic. Now it takes an average of one year.
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Finally, while there are many health benefits to exercise, exercise does not lower one’s cholesterol. Yet this has been the logic offered to the public by the medical establishment for decades.
Justin Singleton
???
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as far back as 1954,
Justin Singleton
I thought this was supposed to have started in 1955
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I continued to stubbornly believe breakfast is the most important meal of the day even through medical school.
Justin Singleton
What the fuck