Why does medicine sometimes stay stuck on outdated ideas, even when better evidence is available?

In this final episode of the Blind Spots in Medicine series, Noah Volz looks beneath the individual examples — appendicitis, peanut allergy, antibiotics, and the microbiome — and asks a deeper question:

How are doctors trained to think?

This episode explores how medical education can reward memorization, hierarchy, speed, and the performance of certainty, while leaving too little room for curiosity, humility, probability, and thoughtful uncertainty.

That matters because medicine is rarely as simple as true or false. Good clinical thinking often sounds more like: How confident are we? What are the tradeoffs? What would make us change course? What is the smartest next step for this specific pers ...