Dr. Jeffrey Gladden argues that medical training discourages questioning whether ACL tears need surgery at all. He calls the system a "brainwashing" process that shuts down the obvious questions a patient would naturally ask, and says doctors need to step outside doctrine and think critically about treatment choices.
I mean, that's a deeply profound moment when you bump into the dogma, right? And you see just how deeply rooted the dogma is to the point where, you know, any person off the street would ask the question, you know, can we repair this, right? Do we have to tear it apart and put in a prosthesis? Anybody on the street would ask that. And yet inside the hallowed halls where, you know, doctrine has basically taken over and everybody's waving that flag, there's no room for that question. That's one of the tragedies of medical training. I think we were all brainwashed, quite honestly, as we came through. And then it's just, right? Then it's just a question of whether or not you can be curious enough and stand outside of it and, and re-ask what's actually the obvious and most important question. So kudos to you.
