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Thomas Jefferson said that given the choice between
government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would choose
to have newspapers.
In medicine we have government without newspapers. Patients
cannot find out what they need to know to make informed choices. No one in
medicine records or reports the information patients need to know the most. So
patients will have to.
Dr. Ernst Sauerbruch
The basic problems have not changed.
In E. Berlin in the early 1900's Dr. Ernst Sauerbruch was a famous but old physician who would not retire. He tied off the wrong vessels, removed the wrong organs, etc., but because of his prominence no one did anything
to protect patients for years.
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