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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (7947)	7/31/2009 1:38:28 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 42652

I'm sure those who practiced blood letting truly believed in it. Some did it because it was impressive and respected and paid well. Neither means it was effective. It may not have been effective, but the entire "medical community" practiced it for years, because they THOUGHT it was effective. And in fact, they thought they had science to back it up (for many of those years, they didn't know there was a circulatory system -- they thought blood was "produced" and "consumed" -- so a build up of unneeded blood was a fairly logical conclusion). 100 years from now I have no doubt surgery will appear to people to be just as barbaric as bleeding patients looks to us today. That doesn't make it wrong today. Not one study, maybe, but after a series of studies, damn straight. When it becomes conclusive that a particular procedure isn't appropriate I'm sure just about all physicians quit doing it.

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