‘I question what I know’: Top cancer specialist Otis Brawley on valuing orthodoxy in medicine
Oncologist Otis Brawley has dedicated his career to advocating for orthodoxy in medicine. Now, he says, advances in cancer treatments and early-detection screenings are fast outpacing the medical community’s ability to assess them — warranting more caution lest doctors inadvertently cause more harm to cancer patients.
“I think we need to actually start policing ourselves better,” Brawley, a professor of oncology and epidemiology at John Hopkins University and former chief medical officer and executive vice president at the American Cancer Society, said at a STAT virtual event on Tuesday.
