Today's "Tough Times Tuesday" was inspired by a very specific news item...
But I didn't want to focus on the news item itself, because I think it can distract us from addressing the deeper problem of medical illiteracy.
Simply put: most people don't have a very good grasp on how different "tiers" of research play out in their therapeutic experiences.
To empower ourselves, we need to recognize how much fear still shapes our everyday relationship to medical knowledge.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/how-should-we-address-our-medical
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Fear shapes much of many lives, unfortunately