"Mythbusters" style British Medical Journal article:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/335/7633/1288
Sometimes even doctors are duped, say Rachel C Vreeman and Aaron E Carroll
Physicians understand that practicing good medicine requires the
constant acquisition of new knowledge, though they often assume their
existing medical beliefs do not need re-examination. These medical myths
are a light hearted reminder that we can be wrong and need to question
what other falsehoods we unwittingly propagate as we practice medicine.
We generated a list of common medical or medicine related beliefs
espoused by physicians and the general public, based on statements we
had heard endorsed on multiple occasions and thought were true or might
be true. We selected seven for critical review:
# People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
# We use only 10% of our brains
# Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
# Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
# Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
# Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
# Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in
hospitals.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
