How many actions do we take in our lives simply because this is how we and others have always done them? In these instances, shouldn’t we at least pose the question if there might be a superior alternative? I admire innovators who view the world through a prism that aims to shake up and disrupt the status quo. You know who I mean; the folks who hear the music in between the notes. Medicine is riddled with practices that have remained in place for decades and are, therefore, hard to change. Acute appendicitis is treated with surgery. Why aren’t antibiotics an option here as they are for other similar infections in the large intestine? Diverticulitis has been treated for decades with antibiotics? Only recently, have experts wondered if this treatment should be reexamined. For a generation, children with red eardrums received antibiotics presuming that this was a bacterial infection. Ultimately, a skeptic started asking questions, and most of these kids are no
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