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The Great Antidote

CHAPTER

The Reflex to Use the Hammer

There's been increasing recognition of this sort of reflex to use the hammer basically even when the problem isn't a nail there've been some researchers who've been coining terms like one this like Latin terms like all the oculosstinotic reflex which doesn't really matter what it really means but basically it means that certain practitioners will have such a reflex to do a certain procedure once they see a certain thing. Even if it's not the right solution like they'll use the hammer no matter what comes up you know and so I think this is being increasingly recognized because it's showing up in medical literature as people giving names to these sort of reflexes to to use the proverbial hammer.

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