Medicine is an ever changing art. One moment a medical protocol is the norm. The next time you wake up, somebody else is saying a different tune. Peptic ulcer was an anxiety disease. Today it is a bacterial infection. REM sleep is the best sleep you can have. Not anymore. Somebody said it is the threshold of nightmares. Freud once said this is the aspect of the human brain nobody can touch. Nah, somebody today said you can monkey with it anytime to cure insomnia and nightmares. I still can remember my professor saying that IMMUNOLOGY has a long way to go and there is no way we can understand it in our lifetime. Nah. Somebody wrote you go to sleep and you will increase your immune system.
All these years that I have been a doctor, journals and medical books have been my morning and evening fares when I am not watching TV. But lately, TIME articles are more in depth in discussing diseases and new discoveries. I was thinking of ending my subscription a few days ago after 30 years. But they have shifted from covering gores and politics to more scientific endeavors which are more interesting to me than to discuss what people would do next ( Syria -Assad; Obama-foreign policy, China- going down or Americans are just envious, Financial meltdown- stagnation Americans can't make up their minds). Medical journals can't keep up with the new trends. They were still discussing what antibiotics were best for what infection or whether scrubbing surgeon's arms preop leads to more perioperative infection. Hahaha.
All these years that I have been a doctor, journals and medical books have been my morning and evening fares when I am not watching TV. But lately, TIME articles are more in depth in discussing diseases and new discoveries. I was thinking of ending my subscription a few days ago after 30 years. But they have shifted from covering gores and politics to more scientific endeavors which are more interesting to me than to discuss what people would do next ( Syria -Assad; Obama-foreign policy, China- going down or Americans are just envious, Financial meltdown- stagnation Americans can't make up their minds). Medical journals can't keep up with the new trends. They were still discussing what antibiotics were best for what infection or whether scrubbing surgeon's arms preop leads to more perioperative infection. Hahaha.
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