Evidence based medicine just received a mention in the NY Times in an article about the relationship between doctor and patient. From the article:
Ultimately, it is no doubt simply irrational to expect physicians to simultaneously be great clinicians, great scientists and great psychologists and humanists (as well as great accountants). Some are; but a medical system built on the assumption that such mastery can be normative would be an exercise in folly. Perhaps this is why in recent years, the doctrine of “evidence-based medicine” has become so influential in American medicine. By pushing medical providers to make their decisions almost exclusively on the basis of statistics, this doctrine implies that what is good for a group can be assumed to be good for every individual despite the fact that this is often not the case.
Complete article from the NY Times.
