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Medicine, Fast and Slow | Victoria Sweet, MD

The Doctor's Art

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The Philosophy of the Minimum

Doctors are taught to do as much as you can for the patient. The philosophy of the minimum is treating patients with the fewest possible medications while still preserving good health outcomes. Henry Blodgett: Every medication you give a patient has side effects and adverse reacts, it just does. There's very few medications that don't have a certain number of adverse reactions inside of it.

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