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So true. I read this article recently about doctors not switching to the newest techniques. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/upshot/its-hard-for-doctors-to-u
by snarf21 8y ago
So true. I read this article recently about doctors not switching to the newest techniques.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/upshot/its-hard-for-doctors-to-unlearn-things-thats-costly-for-all-of-us.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/upshot/its-hard-for-docto...]
The interesting thing is that I think the author makes the opposite point of what they were intending.
The tl;dr of the article is that a study came out saying doctors should strictly control blood sugar in
the ICU. It was very slow to gain adoption. Eventually it started to take hold but a new more rigorous
study came out and said this was a bad practice as it was actually causing too many hypoglycemic events
and killing patients. The new recommendation was to not strictly control blood sugar in the ICU. The
author states that doctors are now not switching back to the strategy they had in the first place. It
seems like waiting for a preponderance of evidence might always be the best path forward, especially
doctors and other situations where people's lives are at risk.
- the_greyd 8y ago"Imagine if America created an evidence-based centrist party in the 1940s that listened to the scientists how much more advanced things would be. Mandatory frontal lobotomies for hysterical women who show sapphic tendencies. Free cigarettes for kids to smooth their breathing." https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1032299239160913920 https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1032299239160913920
- antidesitter 8y ago> Free cigarettes for kids to smooth their breathing. How was this “evidence-based”?