title: Medical resistance to innovation.
abstract: A certain amount of resistance to new ideas is normal and functional in science providing the innovations have a means of being tested. A number of differences between medicine and pure science are noted which can result in some medical innovations being ignored or rejected without an adequate assessment. Historical and current instances of resistance to innovation are given. Social-organizational factors in medicine appear to favor the acceptance of theoretically glamorous, pharmaceutical, and high technology innovations over simpler and less profitable ones.
mesh_terms: D001205:Ascorbic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003142:Communication; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D005260:Female; D005512:Food Hypersensitivity / Q000628:therapy; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D011051:Poliomyelitis / Q000628:therapy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011645:Puerperal Infection / Q000628:therapy; D012962:Sociology, Medical / Q000266:history; D013812:Therapeutics / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D001205:Ascorbic Acid