evidence-based medicine: who decides what constitutes evidence?

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: PICKING AND CHOOSING THE EVIDENCE Unfortunately, the title of this post could have easily been, ‘The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same.‘ According to his Facebook page, Dr. Brian Earp is a Yale-trained scientist who is both a research assistant at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and a […]

more news on the dinosaur known as “the annual physical”

ANNUAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS: RELICS FROM A BYGONE ERA “When I, as a doctor, say I do not advocate for the annual physical, I feel like I’m attacking moms and apple pie. It seems so intuitive and straightforward, and [it’s] something that’s been part of medicine for such a long time. I would argue that […]