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The Drive #317 · September 16, 2024 · 130m
Marty Makary: Reforming medicine and exposing blind spots in healthcare
Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary discusses his book Blind Spots, the crisis of trust in medical institutions, medical dogma that harms patients, and how to reform a healthcare system resistant to change.
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Makary traces how incorrect medical practices spread through institutional guidelines and resist correction because the same institutions that spread the falsehood must admit error to correct it.
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Medical dogma persists because institutions punish dissent rather than reward correction
Makary argues that medical guidelines persist long after evidence changes because the institutional incentive structure punishes doctors who deviate from standard practice, even when standard practice is wrong.Was this useful?