Medical Myths Doctors Believe

Medical myths | The BMJ

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Physicians understand that practicing good medicine requires the constant acquisition of new knowledge, though they often assume their existing medical beliefs do …

7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe | Live Science

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How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in …

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John Brown, an enslaved man on a Baldwin County, Ga., plantation in the 1820s and ’30s, was lent to a physician, Dr. Thomas Hamilton, who was obsessed with proving that …

10 Findings That Contradict Medical …

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Some men have low levels of testosterone and memory problems, and early studies had hinted …

Medical Myths Debunked: The Truth Behind 18 Common …

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Believe it or not, this one is true. When you purposely prevent a sneeze, you place too much pressure on your sinuses and lungs. This can lead to burst blood vessels, …

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Dr. Anchors was a scientist first (Hearvard PhD biochemistry), a physician second (NIH and practice …

25 Medical Myths That Just Won't Go Away …

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As for vaccines causing autism, this myth was started in 1998 with an article in the journal The Lancet. In the study, the parents of eight (yes, only eight) children …

Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe - The New York Times - Well

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Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe. Turkey makes you drowsy. Dim light ruins your eyes. Drink at last eight glasses of water a day. These are some of the …

Racial bias in medicine - Harvard Global Health Institute

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One study found that relative to other racial groups, physicians are twice as likely to underestimate black patients’ pain. Several years ago, researchers at the …