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Originally Posted by Wide-O
We used to trust blindly in the medical profession. Now we seem to have to do our own homework. Or perhaps that was always the case?
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But we now have resources (like this forum, books can be ordered and be available in the blink of an eye...)
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Some books have been around, but finding what was available took a modicum of library science knowledge (to know to look in
Books in Print or its equivalent in other countries) or gain access to decent medical libraries. Doing our own homework wasn't nearly as practical (let alone possible) for most people.
Like other advancements, the numbers of books & periodicals have increased algebraically in the past 50 years, but the internet has put everything imaginable (and a few things unimaginable) at out fingertips. Now we have direct access to doctors, medical research, and more that we never had just 20 years ago, and its only going to keep growing.
Doc