Error, Expertise, and the Elephant in the Room
David Katz, M.D.
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Posted 01.02.2013
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There is a macabre joke about the blindness of modern medicine's reductionistic erudition, and you have likely heard it: "The operation was a great success. Unfortunately, the patient died." That would be a whole lot funnier if it weren't so close to a perilous truth.
