It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things. That’s Costly for All of Us

[Alvin]

I have not read it yet but the title is certainly meaningful. I'll get to it but wanted to post it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/...nlearn-things-thats-costly-for-all-of-us.html

 

[inox]

I asked Daniel Niven, the lead author of the 2015 study, why it’s so hard to persuade doctors to discontinue certain practices. He said physicians have a hard time unlearning what they have learned, even when there’s newer and better science available. He said, “Even if the new contradictory science is accepted, providers often struggle applying this information in their daily clinical practice, not because they don’t want to, but rather, because they work within a system that doesn’t adapt well to changing evidence.

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And this sounds familiar to the situation with ME and cbt/get:

He also said doctors might need to be more thoughtful about prevention: “We need to take a more cautious approach to technology adoption, and learn from mistakes of early adoption of health care technologies based on little or low-quality clinical evidence. This way we can prevent the need to ‘break up’ with the practice when the high-quality evidence shows that it is ineffective.”

 

[alktipping]

it is extremely difficult for anyone to unlearn things you have to constantly remind yourself that new information will constantly out date a lot of things you previously thought to be facts .