Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: tinea capitis

  • “Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease”

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden Overconfidence is an undesirable quality. It does not enhance a physician’s approach to learning, nor to changing when change is needed. How a doctor diagnoses or treats a condition today may cause future generations of physicians to wonder, “What were they thinking? Did they not think about potential long-term effects?” Such future…