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Speed: The Challenge to Medicine in the New Era

Richard V. Lee, MD; Frank Davidoff, MD

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At its most basic level, the coming of a millennium has strictly to do with calendars. As such, it is an arbitrary, culture-bound event, a point underscored by the realization that even the nominal starting date for the new era, 1 January 2000, is wrong. It is a year early, because Dionysius Exiguus, the 6th-century Roman monk who created the calendar we now use, began his new calendar with the year 1 (Roman mathematics lacked the concept of zero) (2). Other calendars, including those associated with the Buddhist and Hebrew traditions, register nothing unusual about the day we call 1 January 2000 or 1 January 2001, for that matter.
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Lee RV, Davidoff F. Speed: The Challenge to Medicine in the New Era. Ann Intern Med. ;132:90–91. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-132-1-200001040-00015

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2000;132(1):90-91.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-132-1-200001040-00015

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