Evidence-based medicine up for trial... and loses

[Guest UTMed07]

This article is frightening... and a bit dated, but still worth a read.

During closing arguments the plaintiff's lawyer put evidence-based medicine on trial. He threw EBM around like a dirty word and named the residency and me as believers in EBM, and our experts as the founders of EBM. He defined EBM as a cost-saving method and stated his belief that the few lives saved were not worth the money. He urged the jury to return a verdict to teach residencies not to send any more residents on the street believing in EBM...

Here is the JAMA article by the resident that got sued. Here is his reply to a number of letters.

[Guest Ian Wong]

Floating to the top...

 

Ian

[Curious P]

The British Medical Journal recently ranked EBM as one of the 15 greatest medical milestones. To see the article and the other 15 medical milestones visit: http://www.bmj.com/content/vol334/suppl_1/#MEDICAL_MILESTONES

 

 

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