Hi Fred, I attempted to bring to Goanet readers some of the advances and pitfalls in practice patterns in my filed of expertise. I appreciate the thanks I recieved both publicly and privately from the goanetters. I wished other specialists would have used this opporutnity to undertake a similar expose in their own field, to alert Goans about changes occuring.
Yet as you point out, there are a few indiviudals who are experts in everybody else's profession. Perhaps their field has not had any new develpements to report or changes in practice patterns. Thus, they have ample time to (superficially) keep up with other fields or at least opine about them. If everything fails, a quick net search will always unearth something to demagogue some aspect of the post. In Konkanni, is such writing called "fuggdi"? I am off to a well deserved vacation / cruise with my good wife. Kind Regards, GL ------------ Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think Gilbert did an interesting expose -- from a field of his specialisation -- to explain how we can be caught in a time-warp and still feel very sanctimonous about it.... It might not be unrealistic to say that "modern medicine" is, at best, a changing field of knowledge. One that is limited by current-day knowledge, biases, and even the interests of big pharma and other lobbies. Goanet is indeed a great place. Neurospecialists tell oncologists how they should do their work. Paediatricians lecture to historians. And we have medical ethics being applied to decide what's wrong and right in the field of journalism. We just perhaps need to start being critical of our own fields, and their flaws. For instance, I would be the first to say journalism (forget about concepts like "precision journalism") is still very much of a hit-and-miss activity, one that is filled with flaws and human biases, and is definitely not as neutral and objective as made out to be by classic text-book scenarios. > --- Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I notice quite a few doctors were in the forefront in their attacks on religion. Yet when it comes to abuses in medicine, they are silent. Or like you, they may voice concern about "confusing Goan readers" with alerting them about poor medical practices. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
