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Introduction..........................................................................................................3
Most common TV medical myths...............................................................................4
White coat myth.................................................................................................4
The Successful Resuscitation Myth..........................................................................4
The Defibrillator Rub Myth.................................................................................5
The Next of Kin Myth..........................................................................................5
The Flat-Line Myth.............................................................................................6
The Doctors Do Everything Myth...........................................................................6
Most common medical myths from other medias............................................................7
Late-night snake will make you overweight...............................................................7
Snapping fingers or joints will cause an arthritis later in life...........................................7
You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day...................................................7
Blood sugar myth................................................................................................7
Carrot is good for eye vision..................................................................................8
Chocolate will cause face spots...............................................................................8
Cold weather makes us ill.....................................................................................8
We use only 10 percent of our brains capacity............................................................9
Chewing gum stays in our stomach seven years..........................................................9
Reading in dark and watching TV close up destroy eye vision........................................9
People should not swim at least one hour after a meal...................................................9
Fluorine prevents caries development.......................................................................9
Cancer curing myth...........................................................................................10
Conclusion.........................................................................................................11
Literature sources................................................................................................12
Introduction
Medicine is, maybe, one of the most important sciences for human kind. Since the ancient time,
people were trying to improve this field and almost fully succeeded. However, developing of the
medicine was often followed by the developing of pseudoscience and spreading false
information.
In late fifties and early sixties, when television started to be primer media, rumors about medicine
started to spread worldwide. Eighties and nineties gave us a whole bunch of medical TV shows,
series and films, which only enlarged number of medical myths. But, television world is not only
media that spreads false information about medicine. Newspapers articles were not immune from
this kind of disease.
In this era we live in, internet has become the primary source of information. Almost whole
human kind is online. That is why now we can find cure for every illness we type in our search
bar. Instantly, we can find a collection of blogs, articles and forum discussions of every topic that
interests us. But, did we really make that kind of progress? And, how can we be sure who is that
person that describe himself as a M.D., nurse or specialist?
On the other hand, this kind of popularity made medicine close to people and made them interest
for their own health. It made them aware of danger of living unhealthy lifestyle: drinking,
smoking, eating junk food ( explaining what junk food is ), etc.
Because of that, I think it is very important to make a clear line between what the real medicine is
and what is only a myth.
sugar are more active than those who do not eat it that much. Studies included both natural and
artificial sources of sugar. Interesting thing in this research was that those parents who taught that
their children are overdosed with sugar were, actually, wrong. So, this myth is, probably, just in
parents heads.
Also, common story is that when you donate blood, you should eat something sweet immediately
to get better. Truth is that when you donate blood, your blood sugar level does not drop. Instead
of that, one should drink more fluids to prevent dehydration.
Carrot is good for eye vision
We all heard it so many times. Especially us with the bad vision and does not like carrots.
Actually, you can eat carrot as much as you want; your vision will not get better. There is only
one link between carrots and sight, and that is vitamin A, which is formed in a root of carrot. So,
if you have eat properly, there is no chance to have vitamin A deficiency, meaning that carrot will
not improve day vision or often used term night vision.
Chocolate will cause face spots
Although this could be good excuse for parents of teenagers to put their child away from
increasing wishes for chocolate ( caused by hormones ), it is still a myth. There has been numbers
of researches of this topic and every single one showed that the spots will just show or not, no
meter what you eat. Actually, only ingredient that might cause spots could be iodine. But, in fact,
only thing that infects growing acnes are hormones, bacterias, stress ( which also regulate
hormone level ) and unavoidable genetic.
Cold weather makes us ill
Air temperature has nothing in common with the viruses that can catch us in that period of the
year. When we catch a cold, usually we say to ourselves that it is because of the cold weather,
winter or something like that. Scientists have proofed that there is no any reason not to go out
when we have a cold. We catch cold in winter times easily because than we spend most of our
time in close space, so bacteria and viruses can pass on easily.
Conclusion
While I was doing research for this work, some information I discovered were shocking to me.
But, if we want to live longer, we must be prepared to live in a certain way. It is very important to
make clear line between what is real, and what is not in medical world.
I think everyone could find at least one of the stories he/she believed in, which was scientifically
proved wrong. My favorite discovery is that carrot is overrated and, unlike my mother, one day I
will not torture my children to eat it if they wouldnt like it.
In my childhood, I loved TV shows about doctors and my friends and I often play a hospital. We
were pretending to be doctors who help every patient and cure every illness. Funny thing is that
before this research, although I am 25 now, I was still believing in those stuffs I believed when I
was playing with my friends, in famous defib and flat line.
Medicine was always fascinating field for me, but fear of blood, death and needles stopped me
from dedicate myself to that area of life. And, although I realized that doctors and nurses are not
almighty, we should all have huge respect for those people, who have had courage to dedicate
themselves to this noble science.
Literature sources
http://realdoctorstu.com/2011/01/19/the-top-10-medical-tv-myths/
http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-student/whats-difference-between-392881.html
http://magazin.net.hr/zdravlje/prevencija/medicinski-mitovi-u-koje-svi-vjeruju
http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2007/04/mhst1-0704.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/First_Aid/Automated_External_Defibrillation
http://holtzreport.com/housemd/As_Seen_on_TV_Kirkwood%20EagleTribune_20070305_HR.htm
http://www.nadlanu.com/pocetna/zabava/zanimljivosti/Popularni-medicinski-mitovi.a205660.299.html
http://www.pansport.rs/tekstoteka/zdravlje/zanimljivi-medicinski-mitovi.html
http://atma.hr/sokantno-5-najvecih-medicinskih-prevara/