> No professional (in any field) should base a decision solely on something written in any secondary source. Even if it was a specialist publication, a competen

> No professional (in any field) should base a decision solely on something written in any secondary source. Even if it was a specialist publication, a competent professional should do their own research, and look at the primary sources. > Imagine if a doctor or civil engineer based professional decisions on what they read in magazines and newspapers. The thought is horrifying. No, I really really don't want doctors looking at primary sources. They don't have time to find and read all the sources, and they tend not to have expertise to understand specialist papers. I would much rather we have organisations like NICE or Cochrane who employ experts in evidence based medicine to gather and précis the science and come up with recommendations for assessment and treatment.