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Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier
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G SIDDIQUI
From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete. BY GINA SIDDIQUI, MD ON OCT 15, 2018 I want to tell you about a brouhaha in my field over a “new” medical discipline three hundred years ago. Half my fellow doctors thought it weighed them down and wanted nothing to do with it. The other half celebrated it as a means for medicine to finally become modern, objective and scientific. The discipline was thermometry, and its controversial tool a glass tube used to measure body temperature called a thermometer. This all began in 1717, when Daniel...
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Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier