Do medical experts really know best?
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s view, there are few.”
Shunryu Suzuki was writing about Zen beginners and masters, but this concept applies to the practice of medicine as well. Experienced physicians are slow to accept a new paradigm, while medical students and new physicians are more open.
Sometimes, what we “know” to be true is not. Despite clinical trials to the …