pediatric housecalls Robert R. Jarrett M.D. M.B.A. FAAP

We’ve already talked about medical proverbs such as “cold hands, warm heart,” “feed a cold, starve a fever,” “drink eight glasses of water a day,” “cigarettes will stunt your growth” and that “apple a day”… thing.

But there are some we left out because the list was getting a bit long for one sitting. I’m going to take another shot at listing a few more, some from the “dawn” of medicine and others which are beginning to hit up against the way doctors are practicing medicine these days!
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If nothing else, doctors are a bit concrete. We love boxes, categories, lists and most of all… answers!

So, things a bit askew, catawampus, off kilter or out of place make the average physician a bit nauseous if not outright wonky and catapulted into a search for the rationale. You give us an aphorism and we’ll design a research study.
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In the U.S., old Ben Franklin published a series of articles in his Old Richard’s Almanac that, if he didn’t come out right and say it, people took as the truth.

Perhaps because a lot of them had their roots in vintage manuscripts like the bible and early writings of the pioneering healers/doctors throughout time.

How about it? Should we take sayings like: “early to bed…”, “an apple a day…”, “pay attention to seasons…”, “doctors’ best book is the patient”, “health checks don’t add anything meaningful…”, “eight glasses of water…”, “cold hands…”, “cigarettes stunt your…” and “feed a cold…” as truth or with a huge grain of salt?

Let’s do some proverb-busting!