How can a medical recommendation that harms people survive for years inside one of the most educated, evidence-focused professions in the world?

In this episode of Reimagine Healthcare, Noah Volz begins a three-part series on what Dr. Marty Makary calls blind spots in medicine — the places where healthcare gets stuck on ideas that are incomplete, outdated, or wrong.

This is not an anti-doctor episode. It is a systems episode.

Medicine is a human system. And human systems have failure modes: cognitive dissonance, professional identity, protocols, liability fear, institutional embarrassment, habit, and the pressure to move quickly through busy clinical settings.

This episode uses two examples to make the problem concrete: appendicitis and peanut allergy.

For more than a century, append ...