Physicians Practice July 19, 2024
Neil Baum, MD

We fail to recognize the danger because we’re reluctant to rethink the situation or the heat increases so slowly that we fail to recognize the danger ahead.

You might have heard that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out right away, but if you put the frog in lukewarm water and slowly heat it up, the frog won’t survive. The frog’s big problem is that it cannot rethink the situation. It doesn’t realize that the warm bath is becoming a death trap — until it’s too late.

Doctors might be smarter than frogs, but our world has slow-boiling pots. Think about how slow people were to react to warnings about a pandemic,...

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