| The article provided a WHO list of "barriers to adherence with hand-washing guidelines", but that isn't the same thing as explaining the behaviour. What does explain the behaviour? Nobody knows for sure yet, hence the article exists. If we investigate the profession of medicine in the same way as we might approach a diagnostic examination of any other profession or occupation, we uncover a whole category of possibility that the article doesn't explore. Before I put forward this conjecture, which may shock and repel some of you at first, let me point out that it doesn't necessarily have to be occurring in a conscious mode. With that said, consider the business model of doctors. Doctors are trained to diagnose and treat disease. They aren't trained in nursing. For that, they rely on nurses, who are their reliable, ever present subordinates. In terms of hours spent at the wheel, doctors are scarcely trained in disease prevention and hygiene at all, which account for only a tiny % of the curriculum in medical schools. Do you want to know how to eat right, live healthily, and ward off a whole host of diseases? Consult a nutritionist. Doctors aren't trained in nutrition. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5... Doctors aren't trained in preventative medicine or public health, unless they choose those as electives or specialties. Doctors are just primarily trained in anatomy, physiology, disease diagnosis and treatment. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair |