Hello,

I thought the following article from BioMedNet regarding the importance of 
studying medicine from an evolutionary perspective might be of interest to 
the group.....

http://news.bmn.com/magazine/news?uid=NEWS.021209-1

Medics need to evolve 6 December 2002 20:00 GMT

by Henry Nicholls

There is a fundamental flaw in the way that medical students are
being taught, says a group of leading scientists, who believe that a
more thorough understanding of evolutionary biology would reveal new
ways to prevent and treat disease.

In failing to teach young medics about evolutionary biology, "there's
been a terrible accident in medical education," said Randolph Nesse,
professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan. "Practicing
medicine without evolutionary biology is like trying to do
engineering without calculus," he said….

Nesse criticized the education system for giving doctors a narrow
view of disease. "What the general physician does mostly is block
fever, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea," he said. But these are
all "normal responses," he warned, and removing them often prolongs a
patient's illness.

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Regards,

Mike

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