Time published an articled on evidence-based medicine last week. You can read it here. Medrant's response to that article is posted here. EBM is something I haven't read much about. I guess I always thought that medicine was already evidenced-based. Is that naive of me? I do think that Medrant really hits the nail on the head when he says "The science of medicine represents a series of approximations towards truth." Not only is it an approximation towards a truth for a group, but also towards an entirely separate truth for the individual patient. How does medicine combine the ineffectiveness of a treatment for the population as a whole with the possible effectiveness for the individual? Honestly, I have no idea.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
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