{"id":19916,"date":"2025-09-17T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=19916"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:02:51","slug":"busting-modern-medical-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/busting-modern-medical-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Busting modern medical myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post\"><em>By Martin Hutchinson<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In the early days of medicine, physicians might diagnose patients using bumps on their head, or dispense a couple of leeches to draw off \u201cill humours\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a medieval doctor might give a more confident response than his modern equivalent if a patient asked for the evidence to support their treatment.<\/p>\n<p>These days, it seems many of our \u201ctried and tested\u201d approaches to disease are nothing of the kind.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers writing recently in the British Journal of Surgery concluded the practice of daubing patients with a disinfectant skin gel prior to operations made little or no difference to the rate of infections they suffered afterwards. Simple\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/scentual-moods.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soap<\/a>\u00a0and water was just as effective.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite this, it\u2019s more than likely that, in future, waking up after your operation in many British hospitals, you\u2019ll have that tell-tale\u00a0<a href=\"\/remedies-treatments\/herbs-oils.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orange<\/a>\u00a0stain around your wound. You\u2019ll have been given a treatment that doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a single example. Many techniques in common use today don\u2019t have cast-iron evidence that they do any good. In some cases, firm evidence suggests the opposite is true.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Busting modern medical myths\" href=\"\/in-the-news\/busting-modern-medical-myths\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a>\u00a0(790 words, estimated 3:10 mins reading time)<\/b><\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Hutchinson In the early days of medicine, physicians might diagnose patients using bumps on their head, or dispense a couple of leeches to draw off \u201cill humours\u201d. Yet a medieval doctor might give a more confident response than his modern equivalent if a patient asked for the evidence to support their treatment. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}