Modern Medicine's Blind Spots

Thomas Sowell, one of the most incisive thinkers of our time, warned repeatedly about the dangers of intellectuals detached from real-world consequences. Though he rarely addressed medicine directly, his insights are strikingly applicable to today's healthcare crisis-a system dominated by academic elites, rigid guidelines, and centralized authority, while practical, patient-centered wisdom is sidelined.

Nowhere is this intellectual overreach more harmful than in modern medicine.

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