That happens because the TRUTH is most important.
Science is all about second, third, fourth, and fifth opinions. Evidence-based medicine needs to be, too, if it seeks better truth with greater efficiency. That's where I think that most medical practice still errs. It hopes for fewer human beings to be involved in the interests of "efficiency."
Hubris, that. Science is the most efficient truth-seeking mechanism that human beings have ever devised. And it REQUIRES multiple participants, because each of them comes at a problem with different biases, previous experience, etc. You can't skip that step and have it work.
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Patient, doctor, academic, this lecture is worth your time. #meded #FOAMed
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JPA Ioannidis on EBM being hijacked by $$ COI; Harms of Financial COI; False promises; Funding; A MUST WATCH!
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Lown 2016 - Dr. John Ioannidis Keynote: Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked
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Is most published research really false?
Jeffrey T. Leek1,2,* and Leah R. Jager1
1Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/04/27/050575.full.pdf-------------------------------------
"When Breath Becomes Air"
Paul Kalanithi
Page 172
Struggle toward the capital-T Truth, but recognize that the task is impossible - or that if a correct answer is possible, verification certainly is impossible.
In the end, it cannot be doubted that each of us can see only a part of the picture. The doctor sees one, the patient another, the engineer a third, the economist a fourth, the pearl diver a fifth, the alcoholic a sixth, the cable guy a seventh, the sheep farmer an eighth, the Indian beggar a ninth, the pastor a tenth. Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete. And Truth comes somewhere above all of them
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I'm totally happy for us to make your medical plan together
But if you ever want me to just be the doctor, I'm happy to do that, too.
I hadn't ever considered that I could release myself from the responsibility of my own medical care. I'd just assumed all patients became experts at their own diseases.