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Letter: In medicine only aphorisms survive

Published 5 October 2016

From Andrew Sanderson

Your article on reversals in medical practice struck a chord (27 August, p 34). In the late 1960s I was taught by Henry Miller, then professor of neurology at Newcastle University. His aphorism, confirmed throughout my medical career, was: medical facts (things we know to be true) have a half-life of five years

Spennymoor, County Durham, UK

Issue no. 3094 published 8 October 2016

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