The dangers of dogma in medicine

Bellomo, Rinaldo

doi:10.5694/mja11.10866

As yet in Australia, there is no systematic provision of reliable guidance for practitioners

Physicians are quite as intolerant as theologians. They never had the power of burning at the stake for medical opinions, but they certainly have shown the will.

Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: rinaldo.bellomo@austin.org.au

Competing interests:

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