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Quote of the day

med_cat: (Stethoscope)
Ученики академика В.П. Филатова вспоминают: он учил не поддаваться давлению авторитетов. Однажды, осматривая больного, обратился к коллегам: «Посмотрите, какой рефлекс, как реагирует зрачок на свет». Все стали наклоняться, освещать глаз и соглашались.
«Все посмотрели?» - обратился Владимир Петрович к коллегам. А потом взял офтальмоскоп и постучал его ручкой прямо по глазу. Раздался стеклянный звук: «Это глаз-протез. Зрачок на нем - нарисованный, он не реагирует на свет. Никогда не поддавайтесь давлению авторитетов.
Кто-то из вас заметил, что зрачок не движется, но вы промолчали. Хотели мне угодить. Этого делать нельзя, истина важнее всего».
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(many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] leto_12)
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The students of the eminent Russian ophthalmologist V.P. Filatov reminisce about how he taught them not to yield to pressure from figures of authority. One time, while examining the patient, he addressed his colleagues: "Look at the pupillary reflex, how the pupil constricts from the light." Everyone started bending down to shine the light into the patient's eye, and everyone agreed with him.

"Has everyone looked?" Vladimir Petrovich asked his colleagues. And then he picked up the ophthalmoscope and tapped its handle right on the eye. Everyone heard a glassy sound: "This eye is a prosthetic eye. The pupil on it is painted on, it does not react to light. You should never yield to pressure exerted by figures of authority.

Some of you must have noticed that the pupil is immobile, but you kept silent. You wanted to please me. That is something you should never do, the truth reigns supreme, above everything else."

Comments

Sep. 5th, 2017 02:15 am (UTC)
Oh, good for him! There speaks a proper scientist!
med_cat: (Basil in colour)
Sep. 5th, 2017 10:34 pm (UTC)
And clinician :)

"Chart what _you_ assess."