A prominent medical practitioner asked me what I thought to be a strange question this weekend: “Do you see any great medical advances in our future?” I was stunned that he didn’t know the answer. Doctors do try to keep up with changes in their profession, especially changes that affect their specialties. But urologists probably know little about cutting-edge research into melanoma. And heart surgeons probably don’t pay much attention to stem cell trials for Parkinson’s disease.
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