Shame: Why Most Medical Doctors Don't Change Their Views

[Guest guest]

Reminds me of a lecture for doctors that I went to on the benefits of

Transcendental Meditation given by Deepak Chopra - at the end of the talk he

asked, having shown the benefits, how many of the doctors present would

teach or encourage their patients to practice TM, no one put up their hand -

when he asked one Dr why not, the reply was " if they are all going to enjoy

good health, what are we going to do for patients - we wont have any " .

 

Jane

 

 

Shame: A Major Reason Why Most Medical Doctors Don't Change Their

Views

 

An important clue surfaced at the annual meeting of the American

Diabetes Association soon after the study was published. During the

discussion a practitioner stood up and said he simply could not, and

would not, accept the findings, because admitting to his patients

that he had been using an unsafe treatment would shame him in their

eyes. Other examples of such reactions to improvement efforts are not

hard to find.