The Genius Life · July 2, 2025 · 69m

How to Reclaim Your Health From a Broken Medical System

Marty Makary on Blind Spots: how medical dogma persists for decades after the evidence changes. Peanut allergies, opioid prescribing, tonsillectomies — the pattern of medicine getting it wrong and taking too long to correct.

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Environment shapes medical practice — institutional inertia as environment

Makary: individual doctors often know the evidence has changed but practice within institutional environments that punish deviation from established protocols.

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Highlights

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Medical blind spots — the lag between evidence and practice

Makary documents that it takes an average of 17 years for medical evidence to change clinical practice, during which millions of patients receive outdated, sometimes harmful, treatments.

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