All too often, this evaluation is biased by group thinking. Dogma is an old story for allopathic medicine. It has caused death to some great innovators such as Ignaz Semmelweis, who introduced septic practice to surgery when the surgeons of his day failed to wash their hands and their gowns were soaked with cadaveric debris. The father of anesthesia, W.T.G. Morton,DDS, was scoffed at by the famous Massachusetts General Hospital. Time proved Dr. Morton right.
Dogma is alive and well in modern America.
The doctrine of professional infallibility, with its arrogant and authoritarian attitude so common among physicians and surgeons, must give rise to public awareness that a major hazard exists with much of today's medicine and surgery. All Rights Reserved, Dynamic Chiropractic, 2001.