1982 to 2005: How Long It Took Medicine to Accept That Ulcers Are an Infection #shorts

1982 and 2005. These are two dates. 1982 is when two Australian doctors showed that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria. 2005 is when they got the Nobel Prize for this discovery. So we're talking about 23 years later. That's how long it takes for us to recognize groundbreaking research. That's also about how long it takes for new ideas to get into the healthcare system. So Barry Marshall, what happened? What happened? This happened to him. What happened with this? Well, now I'm in practice, check for Helicobacter pylori to treat this bacteria and ulcers go away. Amazing. Do the surgery for that anymore. Amazing. But yet this, this concept, those two doctors were ridiculed, ostracized for it. And this happens all the time in our healthcare system. These are blind spots. Things in our healthcare system we think are right, they're just plain wrong. Question is, what are our blind spots today? Messing up today and how can we prevent that? We, we're doing like 20 or 30 of these little things like this, talking about these blind spots to let you know this is an ongoing issue. Medicaid can help prevent those, and we have tons of resources on our website if you'd like to dive into those to learn about these medical blind spots. But it's an intriguing idea that I'm sharing that I'm excited about because I feel like this could be a, a big tool to help people just avoid the system because medical error may be the third most common cause of death in our country. And if that's true, avoiding it could potentially save your life.