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Fair comment. You would think medicine would be evidence-based, but a lot of it is pattern matching and working on the 80/20 rule, given the limited time they h
by gadders 1y ago
Fair comment. You would think medicine would be evidence-based, but a lot of it is pattern matching and working on the 80/20 rule, given the limited time they have with clients.
- fn-mote 1y ago> You would think medicine would be evidence-based (…) Your comment sounds like it refers to the front line contacts with the patient. It has been a while, but my own experience was that (1) the studies I wanted to see did not exist; (2) the doctor was not forthcoming about their own statistics / outcomes; (3) outcomes were not tracked by anyone past (very small N) year; (4) no access to prior complaints against doctor. I’ll stop the list there, but when things go wrong it is evident that science is not being done. The best related published account I know of is of the best cystic fibrosis treatment centers in the country. (Sorry, no reference.)