Evidence based medicine.........

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Evidence based medicine.........

Postby Skip » Sun Jun 24, 2018 12:58 pm

Prasad says the drug industry is happy not to shoulder the costs of research when doctors will prescribe their medicine anyway. "And that's the root of what bothers me about this."

Indeed, the high costs of these unproven – and often failed – treatments fall to people who buy health insurance and who pay taxes. It is, in essence, a massive uncontrolled experiment, and nobody's even collecting the data most of the time to find out what might be useful.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-sho ... g-out-hype
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Re: Evidence based medicine.........

Postby Ern2Win » Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:24 pm

The pharma industry collects a lot of data, but disposes or sequesters the half of the data that does not confirm their drug effectiveness. That is a major crime of omission.

Jeff Novick just tweeted the following: http://www.conversations.switchhealthcare.com/taming-the-healthcare-beast/

The following factors work behind the scenes to synergistically create both the system’s high margins and the suboptimal results for patients and employers:

    Research is frequently designed, funded, and written by pharmaceutical, medical device, and food companies,
    Lobbying of government officials has been estimated to yield a 50-fold return on investment,2
    Direct to consumer advertising is both ubiquitous and effective,
    Physician reimbursement is often higher when recommending a more expensive rather than a more efficient mode of treatment,
    Some “quality standards” serve industry rather than patient interests. This intrusion into the patient/physician relationship has eroded physician morale,3 and
    Commercial interests have successfully integrated non-scientific bias into the content of medical education.4

These six factors have successfully protected the industry from efforts to improve the value of healthcare. They are also behind many of the daily frustrations of hard-working healthcare professionals.
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Re: Evidence based medicine.........

Postby Skip » Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:02 pm

These are some of the reasons that I don't seek medical help if I don't have any symptoms. caveat emptor
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