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On Ignorance

“Ignorance is bliss”   - Thomas Gray “Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune.”   - Plato So, which one is it? Would one do well to squeeze their eyes shut, stick their fingers in their ears, and pretend something does not exist? Or is the correct approach to face it head on, and pray that the new knowledge does not become an unwanted burden? Of course, there is no single correct answer. Each context requires its own response, that has had an appropriate amount of time, and sufficient thought given to it. In the medical field, we have been blessed with an abundance of available resources and knowledge, graciously bequeathed unto us by some of the brightest minds of their time. These pioneers dedicated decades, or even their whole lives to provide us with this information, for it to be neatly condensed into a few lines in our textbooks, the student completely unaware of who it was that procured this knowledge, and how they managed to get it. The ‘how’ is