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Jeffrey D. Bernhard, MD
From the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester.

Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:602-605.

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You could be sued for not keeping up, at least in Israel. I read about this in TheLancet. In the News section, Robert Fishman reported that the Supreme Court of Israel "upheld a lower district court conviction of malpractice resulting from ignorance of the current medical literature."¹ The case involved a patient who underwent surgery for what was thought to be a brain tumor but who actually had a rare form of multiple sclerosis "that behaved like a brain tumor." The judge ruled that "the physicians were negligent for not keeping abreast of the published professional literature, which would have alerted them to this alternative diagnosis."

This was thrilling news to me. For one thing, I enjoy reading medical journals (especially the Lancet, and I'll come back to that) so much that the only thing missing from the pleasure is that reading journals . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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