Patients, CEOs and ideologues vs. evidence-based medicine
The first time you hear it, “evidence-based medicine” sounds like one of those goofily redundant phrases like “animated cartoon” or “past experience.” Aren’t doctors always carrying out studies of one sort or another? Isn’t medicine evidence-based already?
Well, no, not really. One of the biggest and least-understood problems in the U.S. healthcare system is that where many new drugs, medical devices and surgical techniques are concerned, there’s relatively little data as to which benefit patients… Continue Reading