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jimrandomh comments on Link: "Health Care Myth Busters: Is There a High Degree of Scientific Certainty in Modern Medicine?" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jimrandomh 01 April 2011 05:28:51PM 7 points [-]

As I understand it, medical school is very heavy on memorization - doctors are expected to absorb a huge quantity of data about procedures, medications, etc. So much memorization, in fact, that it's probably incompatible with a habit of model-checking everything. If that's true, then this would filter out the traits that medicine needs most to repair its practices.