EPISODE · Jun 23, 2025 · 18 MIN
The Hospital as a bastion of Testing and Testing
from Return to Healing: Common Sense Health Care · host Andy and Alan
We know that at the hospital medical students, residents, and hospitalists dive into a Flexnerian orgy of tests, treatments, and more tests. Is this helpful? We'll go back in time and look at Osler's dream at Hopkins before it became the poster child for Flexnerian medicine. "The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism." -William Osler, MDwww.returntohealing.com
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We know that at the hospital medical students, residents, and hospitalists dive into a Flexnerian orgy of tests, treatments, and more tests. Is this helpful? We'll go back in time and look at Osler's dream at Hopkins before it became the poster child for Flexnerian medicine. "The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism." -William Osler, MD www.returntohealing.com
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