PHILADELPHIA — Physicians may inadvertently practice medicine that includes long-debunked myths, a speaker at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine meeting said.
To illustrate this point, Douglas S. Paauw, MD, MACP, a board-certified physician at the University of Washington Medical Center, asked attendees at his session if a patient with asthma, who mentions she is allergic to eggs, can still receive the influenza vaccine. Only 62% answered correctly that she can.
Another previous long-standing medical myth centers around a common cardiological condition, Paauw told Healio

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PHILADELPHIA — Physicians may inadvertently practice medicine that includes long-debunked myths, a speaker at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine meeting said.
To illustrate this point, Douglas S. Paauw, MD, MACP, a board-certified physician at the University of Washington Medical Center, asked attendees at his session if a patient with asthma, who mentions she is allergic to eggs, can still receive the influenza vaccine. Only 62% answered correctly that she can.
Another previous long-standing medical myth centers around a common cardiological condition, Paauw told Healio

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