SC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dependent And Independent Variables, Null Hypothesis, William Osler
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Benjamin rush killed more yellow fever patients than died from not being treated by bleeding out his patients. William osler (johns hopkins) wrote about the good of letting a person bleed out in 1920. George washington had strep throat and was killed by his doctors who made him bleed out. The tendency to search for, interpret, and recall info in a way that confirms one"s beliefs or hypotheses while giving disproportionately less attention to info that contradicts it. You want doctor to cure you, doctor wants to cure you. When the doctor cures you, the medicine is brilliant. When the doctor doesn"t, the disease was bad. By 2000, several small randomized double-blind placebo trials where done. 1 million people a year die from head injury. 2005: reports from a huge study showed that corticosteroids increase the risk of death by 3%
