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Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)

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The Problem With the Practice of Medicine and Medical Research

Doctors are like a battleship. We don't turn on a dime, we continue to do it for a few years after the reversal. The second harm we say is this lag time harm. And the third harm is loss of trust in the medical system. I'm afraid that's sort of the deepest problem that we face," he says.

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