The Medical Detectives

     I personally don't consider the doctor any of the doctors in this story to be medical madmen, especially Dr. Henkin. Rudy had a problem that wasn't caused by anyone in particular, all he did was seek help in finding a cure. After seeing a numerous amount of doctors, none of which knew what the problem was, Rudy was sent to Dr. Henkin who turned out to be a huge help. Rudy's case has become a bases for a series of experiments and questions. Though his case was not the first of its kind, he was the only one who was close enough for Dr. Henkin to keep track of. Dr. Henkin had given Rudy a placebo pill to confirm his hypothesis and to make sure that Rudy's problem wasn't psychosomatic. It turns out that many people have this problem which is caused by a number of different things. The double blinded and single blinded experiments both seem like good experiments to me. It didn't harm anyone in a sense of someone having a bad reaction. It isn't as extreme as the cases we've been reading about where the doctor is cutting off body parts of unwilling patients. The zinc treatments were really beneficial to the people in the study rather the had the disease or not. Though they didn't find all of the answers to the questions in this stories, it did get researchers thinking about ways to make sure that no one goes through life without the appropriate taste buds.