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Particularly when dealing with controversial areas, physicians often attempt to employ the \u201cstandard of care\u201d as a guide to practising medicine, and to protect themselves. However, the standard of care itself is often a reactive and temporary construct. A number of practices serve as good examples of accepted patient care that has swung completely from one extreme to another. The history of opiate prescribing in this country exemplifies a complete swing in practice fundamentals among US physicians, where opiates have been repeatedly embraced, and then vilified. Numerous other practices demonstrating this phenomenon can be cited, including the use of electroconvulsive therapy for depression, and hormone replacement for postmenopausal women. Research funding itself has been subject to pendulum swings, such as occurred during the recent pandemic. Currently, there are a number of similar, very active issues of debate, such as marijuana for widespread medical use, and the employment of hallucinogens for addiction and other mental health disorders. Considerable harm has occurred to some patients when extremes of these pendulum swings have impacted their medical care. 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