Posted: Jun 11, 2010 4:11 am
natselrox wrote:It might be interesting to do a work on the efficiency or lack thereof regarding antidepressants. But that might not be the type of thing you're looking for. AIDS/Condom-Vatican, umm... No. Damn! Medicine is so boring!
Medicine has quite a few misconceptions I think: people only use 10% of their brains, acupuncture works, chiropractic is a valid treatment, AIDS denialism, etc. Or if you wanted to stray away from the wooey stuff, you could discuss the lack of statistical knowledge in a lot of the medical field, what evidence based medicine is, or perhaps discuss some recent breakthroughs that explain some common beliefs about disorders: for example, broken heart syndrome is caused by a ballooning of the heart as a result of external stress and can be successfully treated, and it's not just an inevitable death because your loved one died.
I'm sure you could write something interesting!