evidence-based medicine

"I'm afraid my emotions are too intense for other people... I get the impression that I'm exhausting to be around. But maybe I'm just exhausted with myself, because living inside my own head is tiring."

Imagine how bizarre it would be to open up to a friend about suffering from stomach pain, excessive gas, and severe heartburn, only for them to simply ask, "Have you tried blowing tobacco smoke up your rectum?"

There is a tale, often retold in modern healthcare discourse: the tension between not only two competing industries, but, more importantly, two different ideologies concerning the nature of the scientific method and its philosophical foundat

Every New Year’s Day, those who have overindulged perform the same ritual. They stagger to the medicine cabinet and try to focus on the Tylenol.

Beneath the culture wars surrounding gender-affirming care are increasingly disturbing reports of organizations putting their thumbs on the guidelines being offered to clinicians.

America’s Frontline Doctors continue to recommend treatments that have been studied and determined not to work.

“The breakthrough came when the farmer began telling Booker about “the hell” he and his neighbors found themselves in.

That is actually a straw-man argument since the reality is that we need both, and these two poles of thinking have been in contention for some time.

Evidence-based medicine, it seems commonsensical; who could argue about using the best evidence available to make treatment decisions?

Randomized clinical trials remain the “gold-standard” evidence in making standards, that is the creation of clinical guidelines. They are a form of best practice creating a “floor” for the care patients receive.