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Poking at one thing out of a terrific article -- "'fat, forty, female' [in reference to gallbladder diseases]"

This phrase is a perfect example not just of how medicine makes pathological assumptions of fat=unhealthy but also how medicine is full of non-scientific assumptions that get passed down in medical training like rumors that will not die.

The most common people to get gallbladder disease are men in their 30-50s with a family history of gallbladder disease.

I firmly believe that the biggest problem in medical training (doctors, nurses, NPs, PAs, etc.) isn't just learning garbage in the classroom, but what they learn in their hospital rotations and residency from senior people who pass along the same BS they learned when they were the newbies. It's bad when your classroom instructor insists that A=B, without any actual proof of it being so, but when you're surrounded by peers who are all telling you that of course A=B is correct, you really start believing it has to be true.

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