Swingle Christopher A
Christopher A. Swingle, DO, MSMA member since 2008, is an attending physician with West County Radiology at Mercy Hospital St. Louis, specializing in nuclear medicine. He is 2018 president of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society.
Mo Med. 2018 May-Jun;115(3):180-181.
There are many things that, as physicians, we universally take for granted. One does not need a background in medical statistics to understand that seat belts save lives and reduce injuries in car accidents. Nor do you need to have an epidemiology degree to know that tobacco smoking is causative for lung cancer. At some point in your undergraduate classes, you almost certainly heard the story of Edward Jenner, the milkmaids, and the resulting smallpox vaccine. Thanks to Dr. Jonas Salk, a true hero of the 20th Century, the last U.S. polio case was in 1979.1 The benefits of vaccination clearly outweigh the risks. Therefore measles, mumps, rubella and diphtheria should be nearly unknown today … right?
作为医生，有许多事情是我们普遍认为理所当然的。不需要医学统计学背景就能明白安全带能在车祸中挽救生命并减少伤害。也不需要拥有流行病学学位才知道吸烟是导致肺癌的原因。在本科学习的某个阶段，你几乎肯定听过爱德华·詹纳、挤奶女工以及由此产生的天花疫苗的故事。多亏了20世纪真正的英雄乔纳斯·索尔克博士，美国最后一例脊髓灰质炎病例出现在1979年。疫苗接种的益处显然大于风险。因此，如今麻疹、腮腺炎、风疹和白喉应该几乎闻所未闻了……对吧？
