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Morton Meyers is emeritus professor and chairman of radiology and emeritus professor of internal medicine in the School of Medicine of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. He lives in East Setauket, NY.
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Your view of the process of medical discovery may be considered controversial. How would you summarize it?
In my book Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical
Breakthroughs, I reveal that many of the major medical discoveries have
occurred simply through chancethrough a surprising, unexpected finding or
observation that led research in a different direction, which resulted in a
discovery of far greater value than the original goal.
What are major examples?
I describe about one hundred instances. But most
peoplescientists includedare astonished to realize that most of our
antibiotics to combat infections, chemotherapy drugs against cancer,
psychotropic drugs which modify mood disorders, and many advances in
cardiovascular treatments and procedures were stumbled upon. So many of these
chance discoveries, such as Valium, Lipitor, and Viagra, have become household
names.
These fields cover much of modern medicine. Are these advances
the results of specialized teams with large federally-supported grants?
The astonishing answer to that is a resounding "No!" Rather,
they were typically discovered by individual curiosity-driven researchers with
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