PEDIATRICS Vol. 84 No. 2 August 1989, pp. A80
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IT'S OK TO UNLEARN

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Somehow we must develop a method for getting `permission to unlearn'—that is, we must be allowed to feel comfortable and professional when giving more weight to the expressions of the patient than to the laboratory results; comfortable when leaving important decisions to those mainly affected by those decisions; more prepared to give heed to patients' groups as well as specialists' groups and able to accept and share our own human limitations.