Medical Axioms: 1st Edition by Mark Reid (Author), Stuart Linas
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Overview: This project began on Twitter in 2010 as @medicalaxioms in an attempt to share great aphorisms from famous dead doctors of the past. Unfortunately, I ran out of good ones after a short time and had to learn to write my own. The content covers a lot of old wisdom that students and residents learn on the hospital wards as they go through the training to become doctors. Most of it isn’t really in books because it’s too old fashioned—too unscientific and unprovable to pass the necessary tests to get published in a medical journal.
The statements within are not medical advice and should not be used to practice medicine, make medical decisions, or judge physicians or other healthcare workers. No axiom is true in all circumstances. Medicine is by it’s very nature non-binary—the treatment that is good for one patient may easily kill another. Thus the practice of medicine should be left to trained experts who combine book learning, current medical literature, years of supervised training and personal experience to engage in a complicated but maximally effective practice based on "medical judgment."
As you read you will find contradictory statements. Sometimes two aphorism that directly disprove one another. This is the practice of medicine—sometimes holding two contradictory statements in the mind at the same time; hanging on to two competing hypotheses until one or the other is proven right or more often wrong. All that is to say this is not a textbook or an instruction manual. It’s meant to be an accompaniment to medical training, not a replacement for it.
I hope you enjoy these aphorisms but if you find one you don’t like or you think you could write better, by all means do so! The instructions are contained within to send me edits and your own aphorisms. It’s my intention that reading this book would be an active, not passive, activity. It should get you thinking about the rules you use and their exceptions. I hope it makes you think about how you were taught and what you learned and how you teach others. It is intended to be interactive and I hope you don’t agree with everything you read.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Self-help
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