Thu, Aug-28-08, 12:42
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Originally Posted by lowcarbUgh
Mike Eades wrote on that topic extensively. I don't have a link, but it is in his blog. He talks about how other doctors hated Atkins.
I'm not dissing him, and I'm low carb because of Dr. Bernstein, not Dr. Atkins.
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Doctor's with contradictory ideas often meet with ridicule, loss of jobs, really horrible treatment. I just finished a book where childbed fever was discussed a lot (novel). Anyway I looked it up on wikipedia to see how close the book was to reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerperal_fever
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In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes published The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever and controversially concluded that puerperal fever was frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses and suggesting that hand-washing, clean clothing, and avoidance of autopsies by those aiding birth would prevent the spread of puerperal fever.[11] Holmes stated that ". . . in my own family, I had rather that those I esteemed the most should be delivered unaided, in a stable, by the mangerside, than that they should receive the best help, in the fairest apartment, but exposed to the vapors of this pitiless disease."[12]
Holmes' conclusions were ridiculed by many contemporaries, including Charles Meigs, a well-known obstetrician, who stated "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean."[13]
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A European doctor lost his job and fell into a terrible depression when he wrote that doctors were spreading the disease between patients.
Then there was the guy that discovered bacteria flourish in the hostile environment of the stomach and American doctors refused to believe it for about 10 years.
There's just a looooong tradition of doctors being mired in dogma that goes back centuries.
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