Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Paradigm Shift of Modern Medicine

26 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a talk by Aaron Hartman, MD arguing that science and medicine undergo paradigm shifts. He compares past misconceptions (flat earth, sea monsters) and how new frameworks (e.g., understanding the horizon, nautical miles) replaced older explanations, and suggests medicine is currently undergoing a paradigm shift.

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We used to think the earth was flat, right? And so we interpreted things like ships going off the horizon as being eaten by sea monsters. We had no idea how to explain the sunrise and the sunsets. As soon as we realized, hey, things around, oh, we got things called nautical miles. People had known for millennia before. You can't like measure straight models and call them nautical miles, but yet you clear up all of a sudden. Now we had, oh, now I understand nautical miles. Now I understand shits form of the horizon. Actually understand the PRISMA effect for psoriasis and sunsets, right? Medicine science goes with paradigm to paradigm. And so we're in the part of paradigm shift.