When physicians decided to go from performing surgery on cancerous tumors to adding pumping chemicals into patients' bodies and then exposing them to targeted radiation was there a clamor by the public to call this "a bit adorable"?  Actually it has continued as the protocol for many, even though to a non-medically trained ear, it sounds "a bit frightening. "Think about changes in the medical world. No one outside of the profession would feel they had a voice in a progressive move forward. As consumers within the medical world, we trust the research was done and tested, we trust the concurrence within the profession, and the practice is implemented, usually to the benefit of all. But, it isn't so with education. Is it the process of clinical trials and federal approvals that makes the difference? Everyone has an opinion, often based on their own experience, however long ago.  Read more...