American psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan balked at the term "Unconscious," preferring "Selective Inattention" to explain realities that people simply omit. It’s a particularly apt term for some recent commentaries appearing in our medical literature. In notes from a reluctant parasite…, I mentioned Dr. Jeffrey Drazen’s editorial and the subsequent series by his reporter in the […]
It was something of an irony to be immersed in trying to make sense out of someone else’s study [the reason I stopped blogging for a while], and then to read that I was a member of a new class of researchers – "data parasites." Jeffrey Drazen, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, […]