The Death of Intellectual Curiosity in Patient-Facing Medicine

I feel it’s warranted that I preface this article with a disclaimer: I am not a medical professional, which has for many years been a barrier to my voicing this critique of medical practice as I have experienced it. This is written from the perspective of a patient. In society, you see that as things reach a certain stage of development, they undergo a degree of calcification. The free flow of ideas in any field tends to harden into absolutes and processes. If things are to progress from there, some brilliant iconoclast must come along, challenge established beliefs, and turn the whole thing on its head. This process is, for example, very dramatic in physics, where an “Einstein” can come along and essentially redesign reality as we know it. <a href="https://medium.com/in-fitness-and-in-health/the-death-of-intellectual-curiosity-in-patient-facing-medicine-bf87e1a51a00">Visit Now</a>