Medical materialism
- Medical conservatism
Claim
It can take 17 years for important medical discoveries to become accepted and used by the average doctor. For example, heart medicines called beta blockers were proved more than 10 years ago to increase significantly a person's chances of survival after a heart attack. But nearly half of heart attack victims in the USA still do not receive them.
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Metadata
Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
Medicine » Medicine
Content quality
Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J7913
DOCID
12079130
D7NID
153429
Last update
Dec 3, 2024