buybuydandavis comments on MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare - LessWrong

83 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 March 2013 01:16PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 March 2013 01:50:06PM *  1 point [-]

On the positive side, evidence-based medicine promotes greater measurement of patient outcomes and sharing of that information to weigh treatment options.

On the negative side, it is largely about denying patients coverage and access to treatments based on officially approved disease models and preference trade offs that ignores evidence that was not used in the model and overrules patient preferences. It's evidence ignoring and patient controlling medicine.

Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 06 March 2013 06:31:24PM 1 point [-]

I think you unknowingly {submitted this comment prematurely}? :)

Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 March 2013 06:48:16PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks. I edited around and left that last line when I should have deleted it.

All tidy now.