Originally Posted by ganulv
My step-father who is a GP said that when he was in med school that no one would have even imagined that the majority of the then largely intractable cases of peptic ulcers would one day become manageable via antibiotic treatment. The scientific method is inherently skeptical but scientists are as prone to group think as anyone else. Anyone who has tried to get a truly novel idea through peer review might argue that they are more so.
I was just thinking to post the Helicobacter story in this thread! Persistence. Those guys were persistent as heck.
PS: You know, you can see those critters on the routine pathology laboratory stains (H&E*) done on gastric biopsies. They were there, right in front of our noses, in routine work, all along....
* (http://www.leica-microsystems.com/pa...by-step-guide/)
PPS: Here's a link to a photomicrograph of Helicobacter on H&E:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/euthman/390307642/
Topic goes right into my cell phone medical curriculum post, too....
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