Adrian said:
>     The documentary film maker, Jeffrey Tuchman, "focuses on those who
> helped advance medicine and sometimes paid a price for the innovation"
> according the account.

The key word here is "sometimes". Innovators are not always disparaged,
in fact it is the exception, which is why it makes for good television.

There are also excellent TV shows on medical "quacks" (who far outnumber
the true innovators) which also make for good television.

To buck the tide does not mean you are in either category, it just means
you have to convince your community that you are an innovator. In some
cases it is easy and in some, hard.

What the TV shows prove is that science eventually sorts things out,
which is a hopeful conclusion, since it shows the system works.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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