Posted by Cam W. on August 13, 2000, at 22:47:28
In reply to Medical Deities by Proxy on the internet? » Cam W., posted by Oddzilla on August 13, 2000, at 20:29:02
Odd - Very good observations, except for the deity thing. Give me another 10 years, then maybe.... =^]
I still feel that my knowledge base is so woefully inadequate, still. So many of the neat little tricks that I forget. New drugs are released in Europe that I know absolutely nothing about. I also lack in the ability to diagnose, which would help in drug selection. I still cannot visualize the circuitry of the different neurotransmitter systems and how they interconnect. My knowledge of brain anatomy, while getting clearer, is still frighteningly inadequate. The list could go on forever and it seems the hurrier I try to learn this stuff, the behinder I get.
But, getting back to the possiblity of fraud, I am too trusting. But, before I use any information I receive on the internet, not from known peer reviewed sources, I always check the accuracy of information through Google and Medline searches and also bounce it off of some of the psychiatrists that I work with. I believe one should be very skeptical of advice they get from the internet (or from any other source for that matter).
BTW - How do you really know that I am a pharmacist? Maybe I just read a lot. But then again, what is knowledge but paying attention to and understanding the current, ever changing scientific norm. Sure there are problems with the scientific method, but it's the best approximation we can use to understand the world.
Anyway, I babbling, so it must be bedtime. Thanks for the interesting post. - Cam
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