Evidence is always partial
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Tag: Evidence Based Medicine
EBM
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE can be both evidence and medicine if it includes: s u b j e c t i v i t y – there is no view from … Continue reading EBM
Peer Reviewers have Financial Conflicts, Too.
This Special Report by Sophie Putka was published in MedPage Today, 10 October 2024: More than half of peer reviewers for four top medical journals received payments from drug and … Continue reading Peer Reviewers have Financial Conflicts, Too.
Corruption in global health: the open secret
This Lecture by Dr Patricia J Garcia was published in The Lancet in December 2019:
Doctors rarely understand how influence really works
This opinion piece by Dr Margaret McCartney was published in the Guardian, 28 August 2024: Shouldn’t we be able to trust doctors to give us independent advice? Earlier this year, … Continue reading Doctors rarely understand how influence really works
‘All over the map’
Over the years I have often heard doctors and academics argue that it is sufficient for speakers at educational events to provide a slide at the start of their presentation … Continue reading ‘All over the map’
‘The willingness among some within medicine and research to tackle conflicts of interest’
The support of the BMJ Editor in Chief to address meaningfully financial conflicts of interest in medicine and science is most welcome. As an NHS doctor of 25 years I … Continue reading ‘The willingness among some within medicine and research to tackle conflicts of interest’
Twinned historic and present-day case reports
This is from Chapter 5 of Thinking About Medicine – An Introduction to the Philosophy of Healthcare, by David Misselbrook: TWINNED HISTORIC AND PRESENT-DAY CASE REPORTS It was the mid-1990s … Continue reading Twinned historic and present-day case reports