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- Title
The death of expertise (in medicine).
- Authors
Harvey, Edward J.; Harvey, E J
- Abstract
An editorial is presented focusing on the loss of the importance of expertise in medicine. Topics discussed include role of Google-driven nonscientists in killing people with medical fables, such as antivaccine rhetoric; expansion of number of websites that claim to give medical information; and the campaign of U.S. president Donald Trump which claim medical treatments kill more people than the actual diseases.
- Subjects
MEDICAL specialties &; specialists; MEDICAL practice; ANTI-vaccination movement; DIGITAL resources in medicine; TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Surgery, 2018, Vol 61, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0008-428X
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1503/cjs.000718