Friday, December 21, 2007

Evidence Based Medicine Redux

Good doctors use both individual clinical expertise and the best available external evidence, and neither alone is enough. Without clinical expertise, practice risks becoming tyrannised by evidence, for even excellent external evidence may be inapplicable to or inappropriate for an individual patient. Without current best evidence, practice risks becoming rapidly out of date, to the detriment of patients.




From the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (yes, there is one!)



Reading that is like painfully reading the obvious; the whole CEBM site is like that. Yet, upon closer inspection isn't it a Fallacy of Fake Precision?

Or at least, isn't EBM itself a slippery slope?













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